# What's up with Twitter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-twitter/572933 "2011-02-28T16:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-twitter/572933/1 "2011-02-28T16:32:00Z")
When I go to just plain [twitter.com](http://twitter.com), I just get a blank white page. But then when I went to [http://api.twitter.com/#](http://api.twitter.com/#) (it’s said that before for some reason in the address bar so I just went there to see what would happen), it worked. What’s up with that? I know they say they have the old and new version of Twitter but wouldn’t it make more sense to just have regular Twitter at [Twitter.com](http://Twitter.com)? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-twitter/572933/2 "2011-02-28T16:36:42Z")
Sounds like you may have DNS problems. If you open a command line window and type ping [twitter.com](http://twitter.com) …what IP address is it trying to hit up? …also, are you at work? (Maybe blocked on purpose, but ineptly?) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-twitter/572933/3 "2011-02-28T16:37:58Z")
I don’t really know how to parse that, sorry. What exactly should I do?