Twitter: "Could not connect"

Make sure the cache is turned on with minimum cache time of 60 seconds. Otherwise Twitter might ban you because of too many connections.

If it's on then it's probably your server that doesn't allow external connections in which case I can't do anything.

Thanks, yes, that seems to be the case, even RSS-Feeds produce that msg. Now, is there anything I can do to enable external connections? (modified after discovering that I needed to change mode from "twitter" to RSS)
Hmm, but RSS works, so it looks like my server can connect...?

So it gets feeds from Twitter in RSS mode but not in XML mode?
Which version of Joomla is that?

Well, I tried the RSS-feed from your site - Twitter-RSS doesn't work either..

I am using "Joomla! 1.5.10 Production/Stable [ Wohmamni ] 27-March-2009 23:00 GMT."

If you'd like to have a look, I could set up an account for you, just lemme know

OK, well then maybe it's a problem on connection between your server and Twitter. Try from some other server or localhost.

You said nothing about cache, I repeat: cache must be turned on and cache time minimum 60 seconds, otherwise Twitter will ban your server and maybe that's what happened.

The 1st module-param (on the right-side) is caching, this dropdown has one selection only which is set to "Never". The twitter-section also has cache-params, it is enabled there and set to 300. I don't think my IP got banned, as the module was never publishd for everyone, so far it has only run for "Special", so we had limited use only, I assume. I'll check with Twitter-support to make sure and will also try on a Joomla 1.1 installation later...