Twitter Routing Issue in UK?

9 points by tehc-uk ↗ HN
Something odd going on with network routing to Twitter in the UK right now. From a BT Broadband home connection, traffic seems to be flowing via an "mts-internet.net" addresses listed in Moscow. I've tried from a VPN and can access Twitter just fine. Downdectector shows a peak in reports of issues too - https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter/.

Tracing route to twitter.com [104.244.42.1] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  172.16.10.74
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  31.55.186.180
  5     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  213.121.192.150
  6    18 ms     9 ms     5 ms  peer2-et0-1-7.slough.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201.53]
  7     5 ms     6 ms     5 ms  mil-cr01-te6-2.lnd.stream-internet.net [195.66.224.218]
  8    19 ms    19 ms    18 ms  anc-cr01-be5.204.ff.mts-internet.net [195.34.53.225]
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10    54 ms    53 ms    53 ms  a433-cr02-be2.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.28.150]
 11    54 ms    54 ms    55 ms  m9-cr03-ae11.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.42.125]
 12    55 ms    55 ms    54 ms  a433-cr02-be11.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.42.126]
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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Same in Slovenia.
Not getting this on Virgin Media in the UK - that is, the domains you mentioned aren't appearing in the route for me.