This morning my Twitter data collection program suddenly started failing to connect. I’m using the the excellent twitter4j library for connecting to Twitter.
The error was “Connection Refused” with this response: TwitterException{exceptionCode=[b5e7486f-24943238 b5e7486f-2494320e], statusCode=-1, retryAfter=-1, rateLimitStatus=null, featureSpecificRateLimitStatus=null, version=2.2.4}
I found out that Twitter has turned on only accepting SSL connections for connecting to [...]