Take the 2-minute tour ×  Firefox is completely unable to load
twitter.com when I am using my Ubuntu Karmic partition. The tab
just says "Loading" for minutes until it reports that the site
has timed out. All other websites I use work just fine.  I can
ping the site just fine  The same computer but using the windows
partition loads twitter.com fine. Other computers on the network
using either windows or karmic also load the site just fine.
share|improve this question sounds funny, have this happened for
a long time? the other day i have somewhat similar problem, but
it disappeared –  phunehehe Dec 4 '09 at 11:19 Have you tried
with Konqueror, Opera, wget, cURL? Does any of those connect? – 
Boldewyn Dec 4 '09 at 12:46 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 2
down vote accepted  Open your /etc/hosts file and look for a
record for twitter.com.  If there is one, remove it, and try
again.  share|improve this answer Now I feel like dork. I set a
local ip for twitter while at rails camp uk and forgot all about
it. Doh! –