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Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (archive.ph)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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"An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk's changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account.

Nitter provided an alternative front-end to Twitter but has been struggling for months. Nitter.net, the official Nitter instance, went down a few weeks ago."

RIP Nitterbot

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[–] breakingcups 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Man, nitter was amazing. Fuck Musk.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can still use it. Twiit checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

[–] breakingcups 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The method of access they use is fundamentally broken now, because there's no way to get new guest account tokens. So the remaining instances will die out one-by-one as their tokens expire, since there is now no way to renew them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But it's not completely dead yet, it's just slowly dying.

[–] breakingcups 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it'll be gone in a month

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is getting increasingly unreliable, though.

I guess it's still self-hostable, right?

[–] ripcord 11 points 9 months ago

Nitter itself was good at what it did, but it was still TwitX behind it. So...pretty awful overall.