So it would appear the fun is over for awhile, a fresh round of sites blocked within China started yesterday. Among the early casualties are Twitter, Flickr, Bing (the new Microsoft search engine that is just a few days old) and in some areas even Hotmail (though still accessible in Nanjing for the time being). Also many proxies that worked previously are now not functioning within China. Of course existing blocks (Youtube, Blogspot, etc) remain in place.

If you need these sites, I would suggest a personal VPN, a popular choice has been Witopia, though not free, it runs ~$40 USD/year. Hopefully the blockade will ease in the next few weeks as certain sensitive anniversaries pass.