Tor version Twitter is offline after certificate expired

The Tor site of social medium Twitter is offline. The certificate has expired and it seems the company is not interested in renewing it. The Tor version of Twitter has existed for almost a year.

It onion domain no longer works and the certificate expired on Monday, writes The Verge. The Tor Project reached out to Twitter prior to the certificate’s expiration, but there appeared to be no interest in renewing it. Twitter is therefore no longer accessible via the onion domain and can only be accessed from Tor browsers via the regular URL.

Twitter released the Tor version online last year to give users the ability to bypass censorship in countries such as China and Russia. With Tor, The Onion Router in full, internet traffic is routed through various tunnels to make it difficult to trace internet traffic. Competitor Facebook introduced its own onion URL in 2014.