Find out if my ip have been backlisted

[OctopuSocial]

Hi

I am suddenly having this response when trying to post a tweet with php using my app (i have been working fine until today), I want to know if I am been blacklisted from Twitter and How to solve it. I keep close track of api limits so the user does not become abusive

Our server is at: 70.39.148.199

curl --verbose “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/help/test.json”

• About to connect() to api.twitter.com port 443 (#0)
• Trying 199.59.150.9… Connection timed out
• Trying 199.59.149.232… Connection timed out
• Trying 199.59.148.87… Connection timed out
• couldn’t connect to host
• Closing connection #0
  curl: (7) couldn’t connect to host

This works fine on my Mac at home, other API calls return data just fine. I ran a few tests on the server with non-Twitter URLs, all responded, the server is alive and healthy. It’s just Twitter that is not responding.

I tried to file a ticket with support, but none of the categories fit. I am struggling to keep my service up and running with our main server blocked, so I am happy to provide any details, shut anything down or check anything to resolve this asap.

I am using thmattharris php lib

this is the response i get

tmhOAuth Object
(
[response] => Array
(
[raw] =>
[code] => 0
[response] =>
[info] => Array
(
[url] => https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json
[content_type] =>
[http_code] => 0
[header_size] => 0
[request_size] => 0
[filetime] => -1
[ssl_verify_result] => 0
[redirect_count] => 0
[total_time] => 10.000422
[namelookup_time] => 0.001806
[connect_time] => 0
[pretransfer_time] => 0
[size_upload] => 0
[size_download] => 0
[speed_download] => 0
[speed_upload] => 0
[download_content_length] => -1
[upload_content_length] => -1
[starttransfer_time] => 0
[redirect_time] => 0
[certinfo] => Array
(
)

                [redirect_url] => 
            )

        [error] => couldn't connect to host
        [errno] => 7
    )

[params] => Array
    (
    )

[headers] => Array
    (
        [Authorization] => OAuth oauth_consumer_key="R1Wog9NvOIhlqafdykZPw", oauth_nonce="abcb06fbf24fb705bbedbe697d77427c", oauth_signature="cdut5dFJY4GrHRPFIYMfLLpS0xY%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1372745202", oauth_token="581878525-YYOHfRnWI3VqivPKBgiVGlxwA7RWc4BEIYt641Us", oauth_version="1.0"
        [Expect] => 
    )

[auto_fixed_time] => 
[buffer] => 
[config] => Array
    (
        [user_agent] => tmhOAuth 0.7.1+SSL - //github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth
        [timezone] => America/Caracas
        [use_ssl] => 1
        [host] => api.twitter.com
        [consumer_key] => R1W*************kZPw
        [consumer_secret] => O1tj0O********************B44ieUeLSL3gMRrM
        [user_token] => **********************
        [user_secret] => ***********************
        [force_nonce] => 
        [nonce] => abcb06fbf24fb705bbedbe697d77427c
        [force_timestamp] => 
        [timestamp] => 1372745202
        [oauth_version] => 1.0
        [oauth_signature_method] => HMAC-SHA1
        [curl_connecttimeout] => 30
        [curl_timeout] => 10
        [curl_ssl_verifyhost] => 2
        [curl_ssl_verifypeer] => 1
        [curl_cainfo] => /home/*****/public_html/libs/twitter/cacert.pem
        [curl_capath] => /home/*****/public_html/libs/twitter
        [curl_followlocation] => 
        [curl_proxy] => 
        [curl_proxyuserpwd] => 
        [curl_encoding] => 
        [is_streaming] => 
        [streaming_eol] => 

        [streaming_metrics_interval] => 60
        [as_header] => 1
        [debug] => 
        [multipart] => 
    )

[method] => POST
[url] => https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json
[signing_params] => oauth_consumer_key=R1Wog9N****kZPw&oauth_nonce=abcb06fb****e697d77427c&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1372745202&oauth_token=58*****WI3VqivPKBgiVGlxwA7RWc4BEIYt641Us&oauth_version=1.0&status=test
[auth_params] => Array
    (
        [oauth_consumer_key] => R1W******dykZPw
        [oauth_nonce] => abcb06fbf24fb705bbedbe697d77427c
        [oauth_signature] => cdut5dFJY4GrHRPFIYMfLLpS0xY%3D
        [oauth_signature_method] => HMAC-SHA1
        [oauth_timestamp] => 1372745202
        [oauth_token] => 581******KBgiVGlxwA7RWc4BEIYt641Us
        [oauth_version] => 1.0
    )

[request_params] => status=test
[base_string] => POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1.1%2Fstatuses%2Fupdate.json&oauth_consumer_key%3DR1Wog9NvOIhlqafdykZPw%26oauth_nonce%3Dabcb06fbf24fb705bbedbe697d77427c%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1372745202%26oauth_token%3D581878525-YYOHfRnWI3VqivPKBgiVGlxwA7RWc4BEIYt641Us%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26status%3Dtest
[signing_key] => O1tj0OsXKPLyGWRrT8clrSb1gDB44ieUeLSL3gMRrM&pLA38e6eMGyZ5py8Cot42bWxAJeoGWYBJHVVvkXtFA
[auth_header] => OAuth oauth_consumer_key="R*****hlqafdykZPw", oauth_nonce="abcb06fbf24fb705bbedbe697d77427c", oauth_signature="cdut5dFJY4GrHRPFIYMfLLpS0xY%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1372745202", oauth_token="58******KBgiVGlxwA7RWc4BEIYt641Us", oauth_version="1.0"

)

Thanks.

[OctopuSocial]

@kurrik @episod My system is already ON again, I guess my IP was taken out of the blacklist, I appreciate the inmediate response on my case, but also it would be good for me and my team to know why was my IP blacklisted in the first place. We comply with all rate limits and we teach our users not to become SPAMMERS, we even have malicious url blockers on our scripts. Is there any chance to know the reasons of this case? we do not want to be blacklisted again

Thanks a lot!

[OctopuSocial]

@kurrik @episod Hi guys,

I am currently being blacklisted from Twitter servers for the second time, the first time it happened we audited our code to reduce petitions per minute and comply with the new auto-follow policies, but Twitter systems blocked us again, please I need help we have about 500 customers using our service and we comply with all policies, developers rules and rate limits safe programming

Thanks a lot!

[OctopuSocial]

@truebe I need help in this matter described above please, my business depends on Twitter statistics and scheduling, I am waiting for an answer here to go on.

Thanks