2009/06/09

Problem with Twitter

For more than week I am not able to use the Twitter when I am connected to internet via O2 ADSL here in Prague. I am not alone - friend of mine Mnagas has completely the same problem.
Each time I try to open the Twitter home page in a browser it ends up with the "Connection Interrupted" or "Network Timeout" error.
I spent some time investigating this issue, and found next:
  • it is not a problem of DNS, domain resolves to the correct IP
  • it's not a problem of my machine (friend of mine has same problem, I also verified that from other computers at home I got the same results)
  • I had a chance to test O2 ADSL connection outside of Prague and there it works fine!
  • other Twitter pages like Twitter Status, Twitter Blog work fine
  • BUT pages Twitter Home or Twitter/boruvek always return the error...WTH?!
What shall I do? Am I only a victim of anti-spam / anti-DoS or IP-ban activity from Twitter side? I must say I am bit lost :-) What would you say? Is it a problem of O2? Twitter? :-)




I am quite annoyed. So far I found that only way people to complain about Twitter issues is the GetSatisfaction, which I think is a great support tool and idea, but I do not expect anyone to care about a n issue having single vote only (my question).

As I said I am a bit annoyed about this since I kind of started to like the twitter ;-)

The workaround I found to solve the twitter "withdrawal" is to use the TwitterGadget (Twitter widget for GMail or iGoogle) (via @janecek).

All other desktop twitter client apps (such as twhirl or similar) are facing same connection-problem as described above.

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Anonymous said...

Mám ten samý problém v Brně. zkoušel jsem tracert, nakonec to doběhlo ale po dost dlouhé době. Browser to asi mezitím vzdá ...

F:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert www.twitter.com

Tracing route to twitter.com [128.121.146.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.138
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 194.228.196.6
3 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 88.103.203.33
4 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms 198.18.65.65
5 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 198.18.10.37
6 11 ms 27 ms 12 ms 194.228.190.162
7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 194.228.190.161
8 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms 194.228.190.6
9 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms Xe7-1-3-0-grtprana1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net
.10.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.10.37]
10 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms Xe10-3-0-0-grtfraix2.red.telefonica-wholesale.ne
t [213.140.49.114]
11 20 ms 21 ms 20 ms 94.142.120.2
12 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms 213.140.53.242
13 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms xe-1-0-0.r20.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250
.2.148]
14 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms as-0.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.2
26]
15 114 ms 112 ms 116 ms as-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.2
54]
16 112 ms 116 ms 114 ms ae-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.2
6]
17 143 ms 143 ms 147 ms as-0.r20.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.6.1
3]
18 153 ms 148 ms 159 ms 129.250.3.98
19 180 ms 183 ms 232 ms as-5.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.7
7]
20 * * 179 ms xe-1-3.r02.mlpsca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5
.61]
21 180 ms * * mg-1.c00.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [129.250.24.20
2]
22 * 193 ms 192 ms 128.121.150.205
23 * * 179 ms 128.121.146.85
24 180 ms 180 ms 182 ms 128.121.146.100

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