Title: [Plugin: Tweetbacks] class-snoopy.php error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Tweetbacks] class-snoopy.php error

 *  [jurisnipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jurisnipper/)
 * (@jurisnipper)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/)
 * If the Tweetbacks plugin is activated, I can see this error on the bottom (below
   the footer) on each post:
 * Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to tr.im:80 (Connection
   timed out) in /home/folder/public_html/folder2/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on
   line 1142
 * If I deactivate the Tweetbacks plugin, the error goes away.
 * I’ve never seen said error before.
 * The Tweetbacks plugin appears to work just fine.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [lleger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lleger/)
 * (@lleger)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959533)
 * I’m having this error as well. I think it might be a conflict with another plugin
   or something, but I haven’t investigated it yet.
 * Maybe the plugin author or some other could shed some insight?
 *  [freekrai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freekrai/)
 * (@freekrai)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959536)
 * Set up a file called phpinfo.php on your site,
    in that file include these lines:
   <? phpinfo(); ?>
 * and run that in your browser, see if the variable “allow_url_fopen” is set to
   on or off.
 * There is a possibility that it is set to off, and besides, that plugin should
   have been using curl (I modified my copy for curl to prevent that issue)
 *  [lleger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lleger/)
 * (@lleger)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959538)
 * That was definitely it for me. “allow_url_fopen” is set to off. Which is good–
   security reasons.
 * I guess modifying it to cURL is the best option.
 *  [Elpie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elpie/)
 * (@elpie)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959541)
 * This error will occur if allow_url_fopen is off on the server, or if Twitter 
   is not responding.
 * If allow_url_fopen is disabled on your server, modify the plugin to use cURL.
   If Twitter is down there isn’t much you can do about that.
 * It would, however, be good to see the plugin output something prettier instead
   of this error for those times when Twitter doesn’t respond.
 *  [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * (@joostdevalk)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959542)
 * This happened because tr.im wasn’t responding. Please update to 1.4.4 or later,
   where this is issue has been resolved (by removing support for tr.im, as they
   requested).

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tweetbacks-class-snoopyphp-error/#post-959542)
 * Status: not resolved

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