The Tor network in its simplest description strips that information out and only provides the end user with an IP address belonging to the Tor network and not you. This exposure of your IP address is what can tell the target who you are and possibly where you are in the world. These servers easily identify who you are by your IP address so they can communicate back with you. "Making our service more accessible is an ongoing priority for us," replied a company spokesperson, who also pointed us toward Twitter's list of supported browsers - which now includes the Tor browser.Your browser normally makes a call out through your Internet Service Provider to servers on the Internet. We reached out to Twitter with a host of questions about its new Tor service, but the company declined to address our specific questions. He built Facebook's Tor site, and in 2021 helped the New York Times rebuild its own onion site. This is not Muffett's first effort at mixing privacy and social media. "All traffic between Tor users and onion services is end-to-end encrypted, so you do not need to worry about connecting over HTTPS." "Onion services' location and IP address are hidden, making it difficult for adversaries to censor them or identify their operators," Tor explains. That Twitter now has its own Tor site adds a layer of protection beyond what a user would get simply by going to with a Tor browser. Users equipped with the free Tor browser will now be able to access Twitter's onion site directly from anywhere in the world where Tor works. "On behalf of I am delighted to announce their new onion service, at: " "This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed," wrote Muffett. Tor is great, to put it bluntly, for doing things you wish to keep to yourself. This means a website can't see who specifically is browsing it, and an ISP can't see what sites its customers are viewing. Tor works by sending users' internet traffic through random servers, and encrypting that traffic at every step. Specifically, Muffett wrote that he'd helped the company launch a censorship-resistant way for users to access the social media platform - even if government officials in, say, a country like Russia, wanted to prevent that. On Tuesday morning, Alec Muffett, a cybersecurity professional with a long history of working with the Tor network, announced he'd brought his skills to bear at Twitter. Twitter just struck a blow against government censorship, even if the tech giant won't come out and say so directly.
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