twistys.com
Mixed
Results vary across twistys.com: of 13 URLs tested, 9 are blocked, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall resets the connection, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 600 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-08, the most recent on 2026-07-18.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://twistys.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://twistys.comIntermittenthttp://www.twistys.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.twistys.comIntermittentPages and subdomains (9)
http://www.twistys.com/tourBlockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/treatsas of 2025Blockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/modelsBlockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/photosas of 2026Blockedhttp://members.twistys.com/access/loginUnresolvablehttp://www.twistys.com/tour/treats/view/id/3899/mia-malkovaBlockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/?nats=MjAzNjQ5Ojc1OjE%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0Blockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/?nats=MTkwOTM0OjEwOjE%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0Blockedhttp://www.twistys.com/tour/?nats=MTkwOTM0OjEwOjE%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0BlockedAbout twistys.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across twistys.com: of 13 URLs tested, 9 are blocked, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall resets the connection, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 600 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-08, the most recent on 2026-07-18.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://twistys.com is blocked, https://twistys.com is intermittent. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks twistys.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.
Elsewhere on the site
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