Muffett said he helped Twitter’s engineers to develop the new onion service. The news was shared yesterday (8 March) by software engineer Alec Muffett, who said “this is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I’ve ever composed”. Twitter’s onion service will be accessible for users who have a browser such as Tor, which helps “circumvent censorship” and is encrypted to prevent tracking or surveillance, according to the Tor Project.Įarlier this month, Russian regulators blocked access to social media sites Facebook and Twitter after the platforms placed restrictions on state-supported media such as RT and Sputnik.īut now Twitter has a link to its onion domain available on a help page showing supported browsers, which will provide a way for users in the country to access the site. Twitter has launched a Tor onion service that will give users access to its site even if it has been blocked in a country, a move that is likely in response to recent Russian social media censorship. If a currency is not listed, please contact us to coordinate, via Signal or email.The service will let people access Twitter through a browser such as Tor, which provides a way to ‘circumvent censorship’.

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