Twitter software engineer Alec Muffett has said that Twitter's. onion URL for their site's domain in a matter of. So far in March, 12.77 percent of Tor relay users were. Tor`s anonymity network routes a user`s Internet connection through a selection of different servers, run mostly by volunteers, around the world. The company has launched a '.onion' website for the users who want to access Twitter more securely through Tor or dark web browsers. Twitter's new Tor service is based on a version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit (EOTK), a tool that Muffett designed to help website owners add a. Whether users in Russia will be able to access the Tor version of Twitter depends more on the availability of Tor generally in Russia. Alec Muffett, a software programmer, shared the news on Twitter. On behalf of I am delighted to announce their new onion service, at: /AgEV4ZZt3k Twitter is creating a Tor onion service, which will optimize the site for the privacy-protecting and censorship-avoiding network. We've reached a huge milestone with Arti, our Rust Tor implementationit's now ready for production use. This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed. Australian computer scientist, who has died at age 44, worked at a San Francisco nonprofit on projects designed to protect privacy. "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. Russian users can use the Tor anonymity network to reach Twitter, announced cyber-security researchers.
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.