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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. The creator of the project left this comment an hour ago: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19... (HN removed the deep link to the specific comment from the title)
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    Nitter Is Dead
    story by intelligencesec · 2024-01-28 · 2 comments
  3. …or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/
  4. …to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2]. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  5. njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.
    comment by doaefjalneg · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared
  6. …nudity being hosted on nitter.net, with a link that actually came from another instance. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... Extremely not-encouraging. I didn't think much of it when I got an email with the…
    comment by crotchfire · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared
  7. …unavailable because Njalla (domain vendor) suspended my account. I'm waiting for them to respond. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150#issuecomment-18... That is extremely disturbing. Njalla is the owner-of-record (i.e. nominee)…
    comment by crotchfire · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared
  8. …suspension from Njalla? This is unfortunately very common for Nitter in particular [0] [1]. [0]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/DMCA-templates [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/482
    comment by sodality2 · 2024-01-14 · in Nitter.net has disappeared
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    Nitter.net has disappeared
    story by rrherr · 2024-01-14 · 87 comments
  10. 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
  11. …'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
  12. …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.
  13. …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
  14. …of Nitter instances here, if the flagship instance isn’t working (this happens from time to time): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
  15. …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
  16. other instances are working. they are denoted at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances and more readably at https://status.d420.de/
  17. …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,…
  18. …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…
  19. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/ I think it uses the same functionality as the guest account feature in the Android app as of now.
  20. …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
  21. …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?
  22. 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...
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    Nitter Is Fixed Again
    story by kaladin-jasnah · 2023-08-18 · 0 comments
  24. 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
  25. Yeah or use "unofficial apis" e.g. Nitter ( https://github.com/zedeus/nitter )
  26. Nitter just broke yesterday and it seems unlikely it can be fixed: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
  27. …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/
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    Xitter Broke Nitter Again
    story by joos3 · 2023-08-15 · 18 comments
  29. Also, you can host your own private nitter instance and follow accounts using rss. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  30. …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
  31. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/927
  32. Nitter (Twitter frontend) is written in Nim: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/
    comment by sphars · 2023-08-01 · in Nim 2.0
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    Twitter for Text-Only Users (e.g., me): Nitter Instances
    story by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2023-07-25 · 1 comment
  34. …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
  35. …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
  36. …My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  37. …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
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    Nitter is working again
    story by linusg789 · 2023-07-10 · 100 comments
  39. 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:…
  40. 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
  41. …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
  42. …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
  43. Yeah Nitter is now completely dead unfortunately. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  44. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  45. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
  46. Looks like nitter doesn't work anymore. I am unable to find a working instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
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    RIP Nitter
    story by nabilhat · 2023-06-30 · 9 comments
  48. 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
  49. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/916
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    Twitter Feeds Are Empty
    story by medler · 2023-06-30 · 1 comment