unable to connect to Twitter while running locally on minikube

[ctyjrsy]

Trying to use the twitter streaming client on minikube, however the tweepy APIs seems to be failing:

stream mode is: sample
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitter-to-pubsub.py", line 103, in
stream.sample()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tweepy/streaming.py", line 428, in sample

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='stream.twitter.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /1.1/statuses/sample.json?delimited=length (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7faf4e4761d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution',))