Twitter introduces Tor service following Russian censorship

[Yamn Remailer]

Twitter has launched a new Tor onion service, a move that has been in the works for years but debuts as Russian President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on protests and independent media following his stalled invasion of Ukraine.

Tor works by routing Internet traffic through at least three relays, with data encrypted at each step, creating layers of encryption like an onion—hence the name, The Onion Router. Currently, there are more than 7,000 relays on the network and nearly 3,000 bridges, which are hidden relays intended to help circumvent censorship.

The new Twitter onion service is accessible at the following address:

<https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/>

Users can access it through a Tor-compatible browser like the Tor Browser (alternate download address: <https://amorphis.eu/> or Brave (<https://brave.com/privacy-features/>), which supports Tor in its private-browsing mode.

Several other popular websites—including the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe, The New York Times, and The Intercept—are also available with Tor services. Muffett has an extensive list available on his Github repository <https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites/blob/master/README.md#news>