This may or may not be helpful, but all the way back in 2014, Isa worked on a fix for this while still at Twitter. We met up at HOPE and discussed concerns on both sides a bit, and talked about how to incorporate the exit lists into their firewall. This was the first time the problem was fixed.
The problem reappeared after a couple of months, so the fix was clearly not permanent. The second time I spoke with various people at Twitter and again there was discussion of how to keep the whitelist/greylist up-to-date, how to compliment twitter's existing report/behavior detection system, and how restricting access from Tor IPs disproportionately affects censored Twitter users (Turkey's block was still pretty fresh on people's minds).
All in all, there were three or so rounds of Twitter blocking discussion between me and various Twitter peeps. I'd say that the three problems that surfaced in these discussions were a) lack of "problem ownership" on either side, b) lack of awareness of the problem on Twitter's side (everyone always spoke as if the problem were new, that they'd never heard of it etc), c) Twitter repeatedly implementing fixes and then either not updating them or forgetting about them entirely. Automation is very straightforward, at least for importing the list of exits.
You're in a better position than really any other Tor-affiliated person, since you've been invited. So, I'm pretty optimistic about a long-term fix.
best, Griffin
* caveat: Isa knew about the problem and already had a solid idea for a fix. Now she works for Tor :-) Coincidence!!!
-- Sent from my phone. How many NSA programs is that? "The E in email stands for Evidence." ~Willie Brown On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:58 PM, David Fifield < david@bamsoftware.com [david@bamsoftware.com] > wrote: I was invited to go to Twitter and talk about Sheharbano's, Sadia's, Mobin's, Srikanth's, Vern's, Steven's, Damon's, and my research about web sites blocking Tor users: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/02/23/do-you-see-what-i-see/
I'm not a Twitter user, beyond sometimes reading the web interface, so I haven't experienced blocking myself. But I've heard of Tor users being blocked by Twitter. Is there anything you'd like me to say to or ask of them? I know about the #dontblocktor hashtag (which is more often directed at CloudFlare than Twitter); I know that Leif was off Twitter for a while; I know about Marie's survey of users at https://pad.systemli.org/p/twitterdontblocktor. Anything else? _______________________________________________ tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project