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I'm pretty sure I'm right, and that I understand how Tor works. The existence of the Twitter onion service does not help a single person access Twitter that co

• MayeulC 5y ago
  An exit node (or multiple ones) could block twitter. Exit nodes are rarer than other nodes, as they're difficult to host. That limits the bandwidth. An onion adress doesn't rely on DNS at all. I think this should provide better bandwidth, availability, and anonimity.
  • wolverine876 5y ago
    Also, if I understand correctly, exit nodes have vectors for attacking your security that are eliminated by an onion address.
    • MayeulC 5y ago
      Right, I didn't mention it explicitly, but that was part of the anonymity guarantees. A middle node has no way of knowing what your final destination will be. An exit node can see you're contacting twitter. Luckily, traffic is mostly encrypted these days, but not always, and there are ways to attack https (looking at packet length and traffic patterns can tell you what kind of activity is being done, researchers even showed that they could tell what movie someone was watching on Netflix).