Twitter has launched a Tor version

Date:
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:54:54 +0000

Description:
As Russia moves to block Facebook and Twitter, the latter responds with a Tor version.

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Twitter has introduced a Tor onion service version of the social media platform tailored for circumventing blockades and evading censorship .

The news broke on the site itself, where software engineer Alec Muffett, who contributed to the creation of Twitter for the Tor network, announced the service in a series of tweets .

This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed, Muffett starts. TechRadar needs you!

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On behalf of Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new TorProject onion service, at: https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion , the tweet reads.

Why Twitter decided to break such important news via a software engineers account, rather than via its own official channels? According to Engadget , announcing on the TwitterSafety account could result in a "load-spike" that would flood the service.

Even before, users could access Twitter via the Tor browser , but the new version comes with more layers of protection.

According to Muffett, the Tor version of the popular microblogging platform has been in the works since 2014, with Facebook releasing a similar implementation that year, as well. Two years later, in 2016, Facebook said at least a million users accessed both the standard site, or the onion service, through Tor, every month. Read more

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Whether or not the timing of the release is purely coincidental is anyones guess, but its hard not to notice that Russia, in light of the recent attack on Ukraine, limited or blocked access to both Facebook and Twitter, less than a week ago.

According to the countrys information watchdog, Roskomnadzor, the ban was put in place because of multiple cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020.

Earlier this month, Facebook and Instagram removed Russia Today (RT), and Sputnik, from their platforms in the European Union and the UK. Announcing
the move, Metas head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the company did so following requests from a number of Governments and the EU to take further steps in relation to Russian state-controlled media. Check out our list of
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