Slow requests (I think)

[jameslawther]

Originally Posted by morlan

Hi James, I had the same issue. Just emailed my hosting company, Bluehost to tell them my site was painfully slow as well. Here was their response: It looks like your website is making calls to twitter, but it is not able to resolve the address. It appears that twitter has blocked a block of IP addresses and your server IP was included in this block. This is a known block/routing issue with many IP addresses unable to connect to twitter. We are doing what we can, however the problem is on their network/servers. I would suggest also getting into contact with them for assistance with resolving this issue at the link below and in the mean time disable any twitter plugins/widgets.
https://twitter.com/support_auth?ret...ticles%2F15794


I removed the Twitter widget from the sidebar, and guess what? My site is up and fast again, but without the Twitter feed. Anyway, I sent a message to Twitter about the problem, and we'll see what happens. But I'm wondering if this is a problem with the Genesis Widget for Twitter or what.


Oh, and just got an email back from Twitter support that they're closed for the Labor Day weekend :(


Anyway, hope this helps you.
Good luck!
- Mark

Bingo

Thanks very much Mark, I removed the twitter widget and it works perfectly. I will also drop them an e-mail.

JL