"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

81 points

Man, nitter was amazing. Fuck Musk.

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

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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.

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

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This is getting increasingly unreliable, though.

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

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11 points

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

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69 points

You won the war against nitter I won the war against you by leaving your smelly as shit website

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i find it remarkable that people still use it

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It wasn’t really a war. Nitter was always at twitter’s mercy

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Are there any self-hosted twitter front ends? Something that would still use your account credentials (or maybe shared credentials) but would cut out all of the cruft, kinda like piped for YT?

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7 points

There’s this app on F-droid called Squawker that now allows you to use your account

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Not working for me, couldn’t log in and do not get any posts.

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Doesn’t work anymore.

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This explains why the Musk-fart sniffer spez got the idea from to shut down third party as much as possible on Reddit. Musk ought to adopt Spez as his son at this point.

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then he’d have at least 1 kid that doesn’t hate him

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