Easy to view from Russia to open a website via Twitter and TOR

Twitter opened in the tor browser (from Alex Muffett's tweet)

On March 8 (local time), Twitter has made it possible to view Twitter's website via the Tor (The Onion Router) network.Alex Muffett, a former representative of Open Rights Group, who cooperated with the project, announced on a tweet.[Other images] "https: // Twitter3e4tixL4XYAJTRZO62ZG5VZTMJURICLJDP2C5KSHJU4AVYOID in the browser.By accessing "", users can use Twitter anonymously (this URL cannot be opened on a web browser other than Tor).The Russian government announced on February 25 that it will partially restrict domestic access to Facebook.At that time, multiple media reported that access to Twitter has also been restricted.TOR is a method of overlapping encryption like onion skin, such as an open source standard and reference implementation to achieve anonymization of the Internet connection route.By connecting multiple TOR servers through complexity, it is difficult to identify the IP address.If you use this, you may be able to use Twitter even if access is regulated.The US Facebook opened a website via TOR in 2014, and in 2019 in 2019.Muffett explained that when he announced the FAEBOOK and BBC TORWEB site, he had flooded the reason why he tweeted this announcement.The official account of Twitter Safety has 3.6 million followers, so the announcement in this account would not have been appropriate.Twitter's English help page is Twitter.Tor Network has been added as a browser supported by COM.According to the TOR Metric Page, TOR's DAU from February 24 to March 8, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, was 1,462,745.Among them, the entire access from Russia is 5.131,847, 33 %, 4 from Ukraine.It was 09 %, 101,199.

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