Twitter is now accessible through the Tor network, allowing users in countries that have banned it to continue to access the social networking site.
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The new onion URL was recently announced by security engineer Alec Muffett, who announced that Twitter can now be accessed globally via the Tor browser.
Muffett said he helped develop the software used to connect Twitter to the Tor network.
The Tor Project allows you to download a customized Firefox browser that can be used for anonymous web browsing and gives access to special .onion domains that are only accessible through Tor.
The project is particularly useful as it allows Twitter users to bypass government censorship and continue to access websites that are usually blocked in their country.
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To access Twitter through Tor, you can download the Tor browser and browse to the special onion URL.
The launch of this project comes at a good time as Russia begins to isolate itself from the rest of the world.
To prevent the free flow of information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia last week began blocking access to Twitter, Facebook, and foreign news outlets.
With Twitter now accessible through Tor, people in Russia can continue to access the service and receive information about the conflict and other events worldwide.
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Twitter isn't the only one offering Tor onion URLs for its service. Other social networking sites and news outlets that offer Tor URLs include:
