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I tried running the TwitterSearch Python library. However I get this error:

ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /1.1/account/verify_credentials.json (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f03e9c6ec50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))

I read that someone who had a similar issue had their program running in China and since Twitter is blocked there he was getting that and he fixed it through the help of a proxy. Would it be similar case for me?

Nevermind, I set a proxy to work.

We're hosted in the US, in Amazon's us-east-1 data center. The error you saw suggests that you were using a free account when you ran the code; it looks like you upgraded to a paid account (thanks!) some time before then, however. Perhaps you were using an old console that you'd created before you upgraded? Only new ones you create after upgrading have unrestricted Internet access.