Twitter Launches Dark Web Tor Service Amid Russian Censorship

Silicon Valley: 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. Russian users can use the Tor anonymity network to reach Twitter, announced cyber-security researchers.

"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.

"On behalf of Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new Tor Project onion service," he posted late on Tuesday.

Tor's anonymity network routes a user's Internet connection through a selection of different servers, run mostly by volunteers, around the world.

"Making our service more accessible is an ongoing priority for us," a Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard, pointing to Twitter's "supported browsers" page, which now includes a link to the Tor onion service.

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