I'm also seeing this same behavior for my whitelisted production IPs for CheapTweet.com and TweetReach.com. (Those were whitelisted under the @CheapTweet and @appozite accounts, respectively.) It works in development, but no requests are getting through to twitter.com on our production servers.
I know you all have a lot on your plate right now but let us know what we can do to get un-blocked. Hayes -- Hayes Davis Founder, Appozite http://cheaptweet.com http://tweetreach.com On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mario Menti <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alex - just to confirm, no requests from twitterfeed have been > getting though ever since the DOS attack. It does appear to be IP based, as > requests from non-production machines (ironically the non-whitelisted IPs) > get through, but all production IPs appear to be blocked. > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We're talking to our operations team about it, who in turn is talking >> to our hosting provider. It seems that some aggressive IP filtering >> may have been catching some web-based third-party Twitter >> applications, as well as data centers used by mobile providers. >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:52, Jonathan<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I would also appreciate an answer to this question. My calls to the >> > Search API are failing because of circular redirection, and >> > >> > curl http://twitter.com >> > >> > returns nothing at all from my production server, which seems like a >> > sign that its IP has been blocked. >> > >> > My app works fine from my dev box. >> > >> > -jonathan >> > >> > On Aug 6, 1:35 pm, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Chad, >> >> >> >> I know it's a little late in asking, but should we switch off cron >> >> jobs that make a lot of API calls while this DoS is going on, or while >> >> you are recovering from it? >> >> >> >> I don't want my IP addresses to be blocked because they are making a >> >> lot of calls! I've seen in the past that Ops lay down carpet bombing >> >> with cluster munitions when under attack. >> >> >> >> Will it help you to recover if we switched off the cron jobs? >> >> >> >> Right now most of my connections are just being refused. >> >> >> >> Do you guys at least check against the list of white listed IP >> >> addresses before you block an IP address in times like these? >> >> >> >> Will there be innocent bystanders caught in the cross-fire again? >> >> >> >> This is the kind of info that we developers need... >> >> >> >> Dewald >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. >> http://twitter.com/al3x >> > >
