[jimrandomh]

Given that Twitter is the target of a lot of manipulation attempts, some of which come from intelligence agencies, having a .onion service seems like an actively bad thing. This seems like the sort of thing that a spy who snuck through the hiring process would build. Leaving it unmaintained seems worse than taking it down (especially since that implies a lack of monitoring that would invite abuse), but it definitely ought to go down.

[cedws]

I mean, it's not like Twitter can't see where the traffic is coming from. If you start seeing thousands of users tweeting the same thing over Tor, it's a pretty obvious campaign.

[weare138]

And what about users in countries with hostile governments? Your online posts get you killed in places like Saudi Arabia. The state will literally execute you. If there's a conspiracy here that's why Twitter's 'secure' TOR access is less secure now.