The expiration of Twitter’s Tor onion website comes after Mr Musk laid off thousands of workers following his takeover last year, leaving roughly 1,300 employees at the company of an original 7,500. “I’m happy to advise any Twitter engineers who would like to fix it.” “Remediating this is a reasonably straightforward, cheap, and politically popular aspect of the extant Twitter service, running on a small docker tier,” he tweeted, tagging Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Software engineer Alec Muffett, who helped launch the service, said at the time that the Tor version would provide “greater privacy, integrity, trust, and ‘unblockability’ for people all around the world who use Twitter to communicate”.įollowing the expiry of Twitter’s Tor certificate, Mr Muffett offered his help to restore the service. “People who rely on onion services for an extra layer of protection and guarantee that they are accessing the content they are looking for now have one fewer way of doing so safely.” The Tor Project has reached out to Twitter to look into bringing the onion version of the social media platform back online,” a spokesperson for the Tor Project said in a statement. “The onion site is no longer available seemingly with no plans to renew. It also provided an extra level of privacy for Twitter users who did not want to have their online activity tracked by governments, companies or hackers. We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks. We are the Tor Project, a 501 (c) (3) US nonprofit. We believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy.

The dark web service meant that people could log in and visit Twitter anywhere in the world, even in Russia and other countries where it was banned. With Tor Browser, you are free to access sites your home network may have blocked.

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