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twimg.com

Mixed

Results vary across twimg.com: of 70 URLs tested, 19 are blocked, 13 are disrupted some of the time, 6 load normally and 32 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 3,600 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-04-19, the most recent on 2026-07-23.

DNS poisoning 16 Timeout / silent drop 14 TLS handshake failure 9 Connection reset 3
70URLs tested
19blocked
3,600tests all-time
2011first tested
7 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://www.twimg.comUnresolvable

Pages and subdomains (67)

http://p.twimg.comBlockedhttp://r.twimg.comas of 2025Intermittenthttp://g.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://r.twimg.comas of 2024Intermittenthttp://a0.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a1.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a2.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a3.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a4.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a5.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://a6.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://ea.twimg.comas of 2025Intermittenthttp://jp.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://o.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://g2.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://g.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://gu.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://ma.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://pbs.twimg.comBlockedhttp://abs.twimg.comNot blockedhttp://si0.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://si1.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://ton.twimg.comas of 2026Not blockedhttp://si2.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://si4.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://si3.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://hca.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttp://amp.twimg.comBlockedhttp://dnt.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://pbs.twimg.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://abs.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://ton.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://si3.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://amp.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttp://video.twimg.comNot blockedhttp://abs-0.twimg.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://video.twimg.comNot blockedhttp://pbs-ec.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://abs-0.twimg.comBlockedhttps://pbs-ec.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://widgets.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://abs-zero.twimg.comas of 2026Blockedhttp://syndication.twimg.comBlockedhttp://tailfeather.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://wildcard-eb.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://tailfeather.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://wildcard-eb.twimg.comUnresolvablehttp://syndication-o.twimg.comas of 2024Intermittenthttps://syndication-o.twimg.comas of 2024Intermittenthttp://cdn.syndication.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://cdn.syndication.twimg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttp://image-proxy-origin.twimg.comUnresolvablehttps://video.twimg.com/favicon.icoNot blockedhttp://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpCFQJzIQAAVg06.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpCFQJzIQAAVg06.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1vDor9IcAAtqOq.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGmmjR5XIAALsYz.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEefWoEW0AARxBH.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPQlgCiUMAEySe4.jpgas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiC22OpCYAEEn_K.jpg:largeas of 2026Blockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiC22OpCYAEEn_K.jpg%3AlargeBlockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUzvfQWUMAAm23f?format=jpg&name=largeBlockedhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6-9-qXVkAYNYhh?format=jpg&name=largeBlockedhttps://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1018871262209179649/pu/vid/390x640/7lgCDqLiomtDxemN.mp4as of 2026Intermittenthttps://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1489492757177516033/pu/vid/320x426/0c-_FpxfqTurIMJO.mp4?tag=12Blockedhttps://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1525871746540515328/pu/vid/960x544/12kJEDpxZNM181KL.mp4?tag=12Not blockedhttps://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/743517213940920320/vid/640x360/8-S9tjqne_1SJ2MH.mp4?expiration=1466408000&hmac=31253479fce210cdf7015b7e833d68fb60d9b1fdea73029085139a41c5fad07eas of 2026Intermittent

About twimg.com and the Great Firewall

Is twimg.com blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across twimg.com: of 70 URLs tested, 19 are blocked, 13 are disrupted some of the time, 6 load normally and 32 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 3,600 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-04-19, the most recent on 2026-07-23.

How can I reach twimg.com from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks twimg.com. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.

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