Title: Error: SSL Connection Timeout
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error: SSL Connection Timeout

 *  Resolved [Moondrop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moondrop/)
 * (@moondrop)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-ssl-connection-timeout/)
 * Every so often I will see “Error: SSL Connection Timeout”. A page refresh will
   resolve this issue and then the tweets display normally.
 * My site is not on SSL, and I believe this is due to my web host being Windows.
   I noticed the FAQ has a ‘disable SSL verification of twitter.com’ filter, but
   I am unsure if this is recommended for my issue.
 * Further advice on regarding this would be much appreciated.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * (@timwhitlock)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-ssl-connection-timeout/#post-4110691)
 * I don’t know what WordPress on Windows uses for HTTP transport, but on most systems
   it uses cURL when it’s available. Disabling SSL verification is a last resort
   if cURL has SSL issues you can’t sort out. I can’t advice any further than that,
   perhaps someone else on here can.
 *  Thread Starter [Moondrop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moondrop/)
 * (@moondrop)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-ssl-connection-timeout/#post-4110727)
 * Hi Tim, thanks for letting me know disabling SSL is a last resort; I will look
   around further for solutions. I’ll try getting in touch with my web host as well.
 * Apart from the SSL issue, plugin works great, thanks for developing it!
 *  Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * (@timwhitlock)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-ssl-connection-timeout/#post-4110748)
 * cool, thanks.

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## Tags

 * [connection timeout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection-timeout/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)
 * [twitter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twitter/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-ssl-connection-timeout/#post-4110748)
 * Status: resolved