Twitter Launches Privacy-Protected Site on Tor Network

Twitter has launched a version of its site on the Tor network, which will ultimately provide a better privacy-protected service for users and allow censorship bypass as well. The development was announced by Software Engineer Alec Muffett on behalf of Twitter.

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“This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I’ve ever composed.” said Muffett on Twitter, while sharing a link to access the Twitter service on the Tor network. Twitter’s onion service can be accessed via https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion while using the Tor Browser or a similar tool.

This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I’ve ever composed.

On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at:https://t.co/Un8u0AEXeE pic.twitter.com/AgEV4ZZt3k
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) March 8, 2022

It bears mentioning that you can already access Twitter using the ordinary URL via Tor, but the newly launched service adds more privacy-protection on top of the already anonymized browsing experience specifically designed and provided on the Tor network.

According to Alec Muffett, the discussion to launch a Tor version of Twitter has been going on since 2014, the same year he helped Facebook launch its onion service, which gets a million users per month through the Tor network.

As for those who are unaware of Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, it encrypts internet traffic and routes it through a series of thousands of servers around the world, offering the users anonymity and freedom from surveillance and censorship designed for the network.

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