Nitter is shutting down

At this point I'm impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must've have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.

There's no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account

Thank God. Maybe news articles will stop embedding tweets in articles.

By percent I bet the amount of people using nitter is miniscule, meaning Twitter spent a lot of time making sure a small amount of people can't access the tweets.

I wish less people used Twitter. Like my city exclusively communicates through Twitter

Elon can go fuck himself

Every Twitter announcement be like:

Normalize not caring about anything posted on TwitteX.

I thought about this recently with Instagram, when I got linked there as the 'official' information page for an event. I could see the post with the general information, but couldn't read the comments to see if any more information or clarifications had been posted.

That was an event, where the organizers obviously wanted as many people as possible to show up, and Instagram was doing them a disservice in that. I wasn't going to sign up to Instagram to view those comments. And my parents couldn't sign up to Instagram. It's too complex for them.

Twitter has been gone for the non-Nitter using general public for a while. So, at this point, if you're not a techy, where can you still publicly post information? TikTok, I think? YouTube, I guess. Mastodon would be an option, but it's verging on being too unknown for non-techies, as does BlueSky.

We've gone from a time where everyone and their mother could publicly announce things on the internet, to a pretty big vacuum.
It's going to be interesting what fills this space. Theoretically, even personal webpages might have a bit of a comeback.

I wish people would just abandon X. Nitter was just extending the inevitable. They don't want any of us, only fascists. Let them have their own place and leave the rest of us out of it. Better for law enforcement if all the wannabe terrorists are all in one place anyway.

TIL about Nitter.

Dang nitter was getting better too. Can’t say I’m surprised though with the way X has been going

Another nail in the coffin for twitter

it's ok, twitter will shut down after the US election anyway...

If Twitter succeeds in becoming a super app. Wouldn't they then become a "platform" in EU terms? Thus requiring them to interoperate?

Man, I mixed Nitter and Ninite and was in absolute horror

There is yet hope https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913513693

https://nitter.d420.de is the old instance uptime & health checks site. https://status.d420.de/ is the new one.

Some instances seem to still be working fine. Can someone ELI25?

Ever since Twitter became X, I don't think the instance has ever worked for me.

Do FOSS apps like Squawker rely on the same api I wonder

Now, I have to make a Xhitter account to see some comics. Some one donate me some copium.

it still could be made working with using real logins for scraping which can be a bit illegal but if you do it on your personal instance it would be more than enough. I'm not sure, maybe nitter already supports this instead of guest tokens?

I didn't use Twitter for a decade but occasionally still read my feed until fuckface took over, and then deleted it. But the other day I wondered if someone I knew of who was palliative is still alive so I googled his Twitter, and for some reason they had mercy and let me see he is indeed still living, albeit really incapacitated. So thanks for not being shitty for one second Twitter, and now I hope you die off as a platform and are replaced by the fediverse.

Permanently Deleted

Find a working instance. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

https://nitter.cz/ is working for me.

What a poor name for a social media platform.

What the shit is/was Nitter? Sorry I can't seem to keep up.

I am certain much of the Nitter use is to access 18+ stuff, and if the artists want to keep their incomes protected, they'll go to Fanbox or Fansly when their users can't use Nitter for easy wankbait.

aight

Oh no

Edit: Jesus people, /s Y'all are dense sometimes.

And nothing of value was lost.