This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed.
On behalf of , I am delighted to announce their new onion service, at:
zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion
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I'm delighted to have assisted engineers in their adoption of #OnionServices & #OnionNetworking from — providing greater privacy, integrity, trust, & "unblockability" for people all around the world who use to communicate.
help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt
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I am also honoured that they've chosen to adopt EOTK (the Enterprise Onion Toolkit) to power their onion platform, albeit with considerable though reasonable modification to meet their extraordinary production requirements:
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So why am I first(-ish?) to tweet about it?
From past experience with the Facebook and BBC Onion sites, any sufficiently large announcement leads to a load-spike, and given that has 3.6 million followers it would not be wise in a time of global crisis.
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The Twitter and Facebook Onion Sites, as well as others such as the New York Times, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe and others, are documented on the #RealWorldOnionSites page at:
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Oh, and "long-awaited"?
In 2014 I led the team which launched the onion; there have been occasional conversations re: "an onion for Twitter" ever since. This is the result of many peoples efforts, over years, and I'd like to thank them all for their perseverance.
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ps: before anyone asks / for purposes of clarity: I am not a Twitter employee. I just help large organisations which want to adopt #OnionServices.
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Yes indeed:
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Replying to @AlecMuffett @Twitter and @torproject
That’s awesome! Glad they could finally convince management to do it after all these years when we first talked about that back in… 2014 or so. 
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@Twitter and @AlecMuffett on this! twitter.com/AlecMuffett/st…2
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Some people have asked: Why offer an Onion Address?
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Nice summary:
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Replying to @Tlucek_P @LatestAnonPress and 3 others
It means everyone everywhere can reliably and securely access Twitter, regardless of what their governments have decided they should be allowed to view on the internet.
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Morning Perspective: Tor is end-to-end encryption for computers to talk to other computers:
medium.com/@alecmuffett/t
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