[tor-talk] tor + twitter issues

Flipchan flipchan at riseup.net
Sun Sep 20 18:14:02 UTC 2015


I have sceen Twitter sending warnings saying that ppl/users that useage tor gets warnings message and IF they Dont stop using it they will be banned/account deleted

Tempest <tempest at bitmessage.ch> skrev: (20 september 2015 19:43:48 CEST)
>XiaoLan (小蓝):
>> Twitter uses IP address as a factor to detect "abnormal activities"
>just
>> like Google sometimes gives us some CAPTCHA...maybe we need more exit
>nodes
>
>i believe that is the issue, which is why i find their recent public
>comments over the past 7 days about how "twitter is not targeting tor"
>to be either entirely dishonest spin at worst, or proof of a rushed
>security model with an ignorant understanding of its implications at
>best.  for the users i've communicated with since i brought this up who
>have been experiencing issues, they've simply been using the tor
>browser
>to connect to twitter and post. twitter is apparently viewing this as
>activity which is similar to a spambot. since they told
>isis at torproject.org that they fixed the issue, it's apparent that they
>need to continue working on this, as it is still broken.
>
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