I maintain several twitter search monitors that allows keeping several peolple updated with mentions of keywords.

For that, I use the excellent perl module Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1 from many months, without any problem.

However, since yesterday it was obtaining only a “403: Forbidden” code from the Twitter API. I searched through the web and only found a report several days ago with the same problem (still unresolved).

But my good friend @chidalgo found the solution: since yesterday, api.twitter.com is restricting access only with TLS.

Luckly, the Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1 only requires a “ssl => 1” option to turn on TLS traffic, and voila! The search monitor is back.