Comment 2 for bug 524132

The same has been happening to me only with updates from identi.ca as that's all I have configured. Since installing gwibber both from the lucid repos and the daily builds I've never received any messages.

Just to see I did a ping to identi.ca, added 174.142.114.102 identi.ca to /etc/hosts, started gwibber-service in the command line, confirmed that gwibber-service was updating (and taking much longer this time instead of timing out), launched gwibber from the mail icon and I finally had my messages.