Hello Tor!

Last month, we were out and about + working on copy for upcoming releases and our new site.

I joined Alison, David, George, and Matt at HOPE for the Onion Report: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/hope/videos/178158095

We had a booth the whole weekend and were cleaned out of shirts for donations in a few hours. 

Matt and I (with help from gman and Yin) led a Tor session as part of the Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS) Summer Program for High School Women. Another session with a new group is happening next week.

July in links and stats:

Blog posts
https://blog.torproject.org/help-us-translate-our-new-support-portal
https://blog.torproject.org/explore-tor-nyc-qa-isabela-bagueros
https://blog.torproject.org/how-do-effective-and-impactful-tor-research
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-open-research-topics-2018-edition
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-services
https://blog.torproject.org/support-torservers
https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship

Twitter
https://twitter.com/torproject
avg at least 3 tweets/weekday
New followers: 994*
*We lost between 2,000-3,000 followers in the Twitter purge[1]. We gained 944 more back this month than however many we lost (exact number unknown).

Top tweets
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1013859982876561408
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1015311953596764160
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1016712421044604929
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1016307257771003904

https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1016712421044604929

https//twitter.com/torproject/status/1015311953596764160Mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@torproject
at least 1 post/week
New followers: 221

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/torproject/
at least 1 post/month
New followers: 57

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tor-project/
at least 1 post/week
New followers: 59

Facebook
https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/TorProject/
at least 1 post/weekday
New followers: 178

Newsletter
1/month
https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2018-07-31-research-tips-topics-egypt-censorship-report/

Notable press
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-ways-to-protect-your-privacy/
https://www.cyberscoop.com/domain-fronting-ban-letter-ron-wyden-marco-rubio-amazon-google/
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkjzm/what-went-wrong-at-the-hope-hacking-conference

[1] https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2018/07/12/technology/twitter-followers-nyt.html

o/

-steph