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So why am I first(-ish?) to tweet about it? From past experience with the Facebook and BBC Onion sites, any sufficiently large announcement leads to a load-spike, and given that

@TwitterSafety

has 3.6 million followers it would not be wise in a time of global crisis.

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The Twitter and Facebook Onion Sites, as well as others such as the New York Times, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe and others, are documented on the #RealWorldOnionSites page at:

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Oh, and "long-awaited"? In 2014 I led the team which launched the

@Facebook

onion; there have been occasional conversations re: "an onion for Twitter" ever since. This is the result of many peoples efforts, over years, and I'd like to thank them all for their perseverance.

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ps: before anyone asks / for purposes of clarity: I am not a Twitter employee. I just help large organisations which want to adopt #OnionServices.

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Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia

Yes indeed:

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Jan Schaumann

@jschauma

· Mar 8

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That’s awesome! Glad they could finally convince management to do it after all these years when we first talked about that back in… 2014 or so.

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The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries.

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Twitter launches a Tor service to help Russians evade censorship | Engadget

Twitter has launched a Tor onion service to help Russians and others access internet services that would otherwise be blocked..

Kind words from the head of

@WhatsApp

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Will Cathcart

@wcathcart

· Mar 8

@Twitter and @AlecMuffett on this! twitter.com/AlecMuffett/st…

Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?

Some people have asked: Why offer an Onion Address?

alecmuffett.com

There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenti…

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Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting

It’s accessible through Tor Browser and similar apps.

Nice summary:

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Runa Sandvik

@runasand

· Mar 8

Replying to @Tlucek_P @LatestAnonPress and 3 others

It means everyone everywhere can reliably and securely access Twitter, regardless of what their governments have decided they should be allowed to view on the internet.

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Morning Perspective: Tor is end-to-end encryption for computers to talk to other computers: medium.com/@alecmuffett/t

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Why should big websites run an Onion Service? alecmuffett.com/article/16007 #OnionServices

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It's soooo cool, mate! You're my hero. Thank you very much!

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Bravo

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Did you tweet it over Tor???

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Are they running an exit node?

It's an Onion Service, not an exit-node. :-)

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Alec, you are amazing.

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woohoo a million congrats

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Can Twitter tweak their app to run on onion service?

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IPv6 next? :P this is great though

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