My VPS can't see twitter most of the time.

[Dustin]

I'm running a service that runs a twitter client for people by proxy
and lately it's been unable to connect to twitter.com:80 or
search.twitter.com:80 at all.

Connectivity seems pretty good in general, but I don't get http
responses from twitter at all.

Is this scenario familiar to anyone else?

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Dustin,

Please email a...@twitter.com with what service this is for and
what IP address. It's possible that there is some sort of network issue.

Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford

[Alex Payne]

Chances are good that your IP was blacklisted for excessive traffic.
20k requests per hour is the maximum we accept from any whitelisted
IP.

--
Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/al3x

[Dustin]

On Jan 30, 2:09 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Chances are good that your IP was blacklisted for excessive traffic.
> 20k requests per hour is the maximum we accept from any whitelisted
> IP.

Well, I have enough users and queries so that if they're all logged
in I would have no issue exceeding 20k per hour.

It's a bit unfortunate that everyone running their own instance of
my software would generate considerably more traffic for you, but work
better for the end users.

[dougw]

Dustin,
Are you performing server-side caching?

Is your app public? I'd love to have a peak.

@dougw

[Dustin]

On Feb 1, 8:38 am, dougw <igu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dustin,
> Are you performing server-side caching?
>
> Is your app public? I'd love to have a peak.

I don't have much I have the opportunity to cache very much at all.

Source is here:

http://github.com/dustin/twitterspy

[Dustin]

On Jan 30, 2:09 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote:

> Chances are good that your IP was blacklisted for excessive traffic.
> 20k requests per hour is the maximum we accept from any whitelisted
> IP.

Should this clear itself up? The entire service has been mostly
offline for over a week, and during a lot of that, google and
jabber.org had difficulty communicating, so a large portion of the
userbase was offline (thus work wasn't being done for them).

[Dustin]

On Jan 30, 2:09 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote:

> Chances are good that your IP was blacklisted for excessive traffic.
> 20k requests per hour is the maximum we accept from any whitelisted
> IP.

Should this ever clear itself up?

As far as I can tell, I'm not getting anything in, even though I've
reduced my rates and a jabber.org/gtalk problem made large portion of
my users unavailable.

[Alex Payne]

Hi Dustin,

Sounds like your IP got blacklisted by our operations team. We've documented what to do in this case: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#IsmyIPbannedorblacklisted