{"id":58650,"date":"2022-03-10T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58650"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:51:15","slug":"twitter-blocked-in-russia-launches-tor-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/twitter-blocked-in-russia-launches-tor-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, blocked in Russia, launches Tor version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social network Twitter, blocked in Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion\/\">launched a version<\/a> of its service on the Tor network.<\/p>\n<p>Tor has also been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/using-twitter\/twitter-supported-browsers\">list<\/a> of officially supported Twitter browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Users could previously access Twitter via Tor; however, the new version adds more layers of protection and anonymity and is designed specifically for the network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/8\/22967843\/twitter-tor-onion-service-version-launch\">The Verge<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Alec Muffett, who published the news on Twitter, called the post about launching the social network on the Tor network \u201cperhaps the most important and long-awaited tweet\u201d he has ever written.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I&#8217;ve ever composed.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>, I am delighted to announce their new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torproject?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TorProject<\/a> onion service, at:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Un8u0AEXeE\">https:\/\/t.co\/Un8u0AEXeE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AgEV4ZZt3k\">pic.twitter.com\/AgEV4ZZt3k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlecMuffett\/status\/1501282223009542151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On March 4, Roskomnadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomsvoboda-appeals-tor-blockage-in-russia\">blocked access to Twitter<\/a> and Facebook. Earlier the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-begins-blocking-tor\">tried to restrict<\/a> access to Tor.<\/p>\n<p>For insights on how to circumvent blocks, read our exclusive feature:<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social network Twitter, blocked in Russia, launched a version of its service on the Tor network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,40],"class_list":["post-58650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-tor","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58652,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58650\/revisions\/58652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}