Twitter has launched the Tor onion service, optimising it for the privacy-protecting and censorship-evading network. In March, 12.77 per cent of Tor relay users were originally connecting from Russia, according to data by the Tor Project.įacebook launched its own Tor version in 2014. Use Twitter, Facebook and other social network platforms. 'Making our service more accessible is an ongoing priority for us, ' a Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard, pointing to Twitter's 'supported browsers' page, which now includes a link to the Tor onion service. Enlarging anonymity sets is something that Tor developers do in order to publish incremental. Tor's anonymity network routes a user's Internet connection through a selection of different servers, run mostly by volunteers, around the world. 'On behalf of Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new Tor Project onion service, ' he posted late on Tuesday. 'This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed, ' Alec Muffett, the cybersecurity expert and designer of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit which makes deploying Tor onion services easier, tweeted. The company has launched a '.onion' website for the users who want to access Twitter more securely through Tor or. Russian users can use the Tor anonymity network to reach Twitter, announced cyber-security researchers. Twitter is taking a unique step to ensure its users are able to tweet securely. 'This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that Ive ever composed,' Alec Muffett, the cybersecurity expert and designer of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit which makes deploying Tor onion services easier, tweeted. NEW DELHI: Blocked by the Russian government, Twitter has entered the Dark Web and people can now access the platform via a Tor Onion service to bypass the censorship. Russian users can use the Tor anonymity network to reach Twitter, announced cyber-security researchers.

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