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Alternative Twitter front-end

200 mentions on Hacker News by 161 people: 24 stories, 176 comments · first 2019-11-14 · latest 2026-10-23

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  1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699022 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...
    comment by moritzwarhier · 2024-01-12 · in Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video
  2. …'nitter.net' isn't the only deployment. See here for a long list of alternative instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by arrowsmith · 2024-01-09 · in Elixir is now a gradually typed language
  3. …see account replies via RSS. But, I think nitter has recently disabled RSS feed on main instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/986 . Try to find other instance which support it.
  4. …the token workaround you mentioned is the old way that no longer works, but I am not sure. [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/985
  5. …of Nitter instances here, if the flagship instance isn’t working (this happens from time to time): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
  6. …running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
  7. other instances are working. they are denoted at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances and more readably at https://status.d420.de/
  8. …currently uses so called "guest accounts" and a proxy network. Start here if you want more details: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168... The required proxies are the reason currently only nitter.net is working,…
  9. …they tried using RSS feeds that got pulled). The latest development is the use of "guest tokens" ( https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/985 ) that you have to create and install by hand (running a Node script) because Nitter hasn't…
  10. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/ I think it uses the same functionality as the guest account feature in the Android app as of now.
  11. …completely skinned down to just the content and no login nags: Nitter - https://nitter.net - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter Youtube, also very skinned down and you can also collapse recommendations by default etc.: Piped -…
    comment by SushiHippie · 2023-09-20 · in My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
  12. …grabbed while doing reverse engineering. Some code looks very much to be about the rate limits too. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f... https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f...
    comment by speedgoose · 2023-09-06 · in Ask HN: How is Nitter still working?
  13. nitter works for me. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://nitter.net/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665406 https://www.wired.com/story/nitter-twitter-remove-ads-for-yo...
  14. Unfortunately Nitter broke earlier this week thanks to some changes by Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983 I was using a self-hosted Nitter instance for the RSS feeds as I deactivated my Twitter account
  15. Yeah or use "unofficial apis" e.g. Nitter ( https://github.com/zedeus/nitter )
  16. Nitter just broke yesterday and it seems unlikely it can be fixed: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
  17. …switched. They worked around the rate limiting issue now, so that may no longer be the case. [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances [1] https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/
  18. Also, you can host your own private nitter instance and follow accounts using rss. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  19. …here’s [1] a list of Nitter instances. The flagship one (Nitter.net) always gets overloaded [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by Given_47 · 2023-08-08 · in A beginner's guide to Git version control
  20. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/927
  21. Nitter (Twitter frontend) is written in Nim: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/
    comment by sphars · 2023-08-01 · in Nim 2.0
  22. …invasion via JS. Those are essentially my main reasons to want to browse the Web without JS. [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [2]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
  23. …fairly large projects in Nim: https://nimbus.team/ ( https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2 ) or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter Though there's still friction points I've been happy seeing the ecosystem grow lately. The compiler has…
    comment by elcritch · 2023-07-17 · in Crystal 1.9.1
  24. …My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  25. …is being tested. Check the instance list for updated instances, most of them have RSS enabled: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by zedeus · 2023-07-10 · in Nitter is working again
  26. People are trying to find a method to here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919 (check out https://rsshub.app/twitter/user/elonmusk ) For the very desperate, this is still "working" for some reason:…
  27. People are trying to find a method to here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919 (check out https://rsshub.app/twitter/user/elonmusk ) For the very desperate, this is still "working" for some reason:…
    comment by justnotworthit · 2023-07-04 · in Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
  28. …more maturity than HN seems to be. The petty personal attacks are simply astonishing. "RIP Nitter" https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
    comment by 18pfsmt · 2023-07-02 · in Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
  29. …more info about where it gets the data from and if there is some kind of archive/history of it? [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919#issuecomment-161... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542179
    comment by SushiHippie · 2023-07-02 · in CiscoRank
  30. Yeah Nitter is now completely dead unfortunately. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  31. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  32. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  33. Looks like nitter doesn't work anymore. I am unable to find a working instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
  34. It doesn't. Not anymore: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/916#issuecomment-161... .
    comment by a_bored_husky · 2023-06-30 · in Twitter preventing viewing without logging in
  35. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/916
  36. …Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter " No need to sign-in to view Twitter. Instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by open-source-ux · 2023-06-30 · in Twitter preventing viewing without logging in
  37. …use themselves. This is more or less what Nitter does for providing alternate twitter frontend https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  38. …stand up your own instance and put it behind something like Tailscale so only you are using it. 1. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
    comment by ecliptik · 2023-05-12 · in Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
  39. Aren't most HNers using Nitter? https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  40. …in the URL for a nitter instance of your choice to see it sans recommendations, ads etc: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by detrites · 2023-05-02 · in AI Generated Propaganda
  41. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  42. …Nitter is the best service if you just want to see tweets without 3-10 popups and the tracking. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#tor
  43. Don’t forget all the Nitter proxy sites: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by teddyh · 2023-02-21 · in Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow
  44. …if you don't know Nim). 1 - https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/#scraping-pro... 2 - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  45. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/consts.nim They use a leaked token from one of the mobile clients that twitter can't/won't revoke.
  46. …unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)[0] Not sure what that means 0. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  47. Nitter doesn't appear to be locked out, at least for now. Here's the list of instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by foresto · 2023-01-20 · in Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
  48. Nitter[0][1] (which does not use the official API) still works. [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
    comment by btdmaster · 2023-01-14 · in Twitter's API is down?
  49. https://nitter.net/edward_the6/status/1610067688449007618 Or you can try other instances. [1] [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances Edit: Got the error too, nitter.cz instance seems to be working. [2] [2]…
  50. Just replace 'twitter.com' with 'nitter.net' in URL. Nitter is Twitter alternative frontend. [1] [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter