I had similar problems to those above. It seemed at first to be a
Facebook problem, as I had just added my Facebook account.  However, it
turned out it was actually a network issue and the gwibber-service was
failing to update both Facebook and Twitter streams.  You can see this
is happening in the logs quoted above as well:

error: (28, 'connect() timed out!')

In my case, I got things working by editing /etc/resolv.conf and adding
the Google and Level 3 nameservers, in addition to the crappy wifi
router I am using:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 192.168.1.1

My theory: The timeouts for connecting and receiving data may simply be
too short for many folks out there.

Using a faster nameserver worked for me, at least temporarily.  But it
is just a workaround, the gwibber service should probably be a little
more tolerant of poor networks.  Hope this helps someone.

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