Huge renown knows the neighboring country the tools that allow its members Twitter to bypass the block at Twitter and gain access to social network.
It is indicative that one of these tools, the Tor software that anonymizes the electronic addresses of computers and "smart" devices, saw its use almost double in Turkey in just a few 24 hours after it was "silenced". platformof social networking. Thus, connections through Tor from the other side of the Aegean had reached 40.000 until yesterday, from 24.000 before the ban was implemented.
Although effective, Tor is a relatively complex technical solution to circumvent the "blocking" that Turkish operators have been mandating, under the authority of the Central Telecommunications Authority. Therefore, more users seem to be turning to virtual private networks (VPN) solutions that "camouflage" the "footprint" of the Internet connection, which seems to come from another country.
According to the site technologyς Ars Technica, οι application VPN για «έξυπνες» συσκευές Android και iOS γνωρίζουν εκρηκτική διάδοση στην Τουρκία, με συνέπεια αρκετές από αυτές να συγκαταλέγονται πλέον στη λίστα των εφαρμογών με τις περισσότερες εγκαταστάσεις, τόσο στο online κατάστημα της Apple όσο και σε αυτό της Google. A typical case is the VPN Hotspot Shield application, the use of which skyrocketed by 33.000% in just 24 hours.
However, during the weekend, the Turkish government found "antidote" in a fairly simple method, which seems to have evaded several users by changing their router settings to connect to Google's public and free DNS servers (and from there on Twitter ), and not on the blocked DNS servers of their providers in Turkey. A solution that no longer works, as Twitter is now blocked at IP level.
This move makes some analysts predict that Turkey will soon be able to send and receive Tweet via simple SMS - a feature proposed by Twitter itself through its official account to its members in Turkey so they can continue to use social network, and which, at least for the time being, still works.
Even if there is this development, however, experts argue that, thanks to the other tools, it is technically impossible for the Turkish government to cut off users from the social network. That is why they believe that, instead of a show of fists, the decision to "uproot Twitter" may end in a resounding failure for Erdogan.
