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Nitter.it: Unavailable for Legal Reasons

85 points by toastedwedge 4y ago

theCrowing 4y ago
Must be that freedom I was missing.
- slater 4y ago
  https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/
  - cf100clunk 4y ago
    Working fine at this link in France so maybe not a European thing, Italian only? https://nitter.fdn.fr/ https://nitter.fdn.fr/
    - slater 4y ago
      Right, isn't nitter.net the main URL? shrug
      - cf100clunk 4y ago
        Not getting your point. I'm curious why the Nitter.it link came up with that message. Is it an Italy-only thing?
  - burkaman 4y ago
    You can also use https://twiiit.com/ https://twiiit.com/ to redirect to a working and non-rate-limited instance.
  - insane_dreamer 4y ago
    shows no tweets though
- pessimizer 4y ago
  Freedom from Italian censorship?
pinewurst 4y ago
You can connect to nitter.net but all account tweets seem gone.
- dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
  Can confirm. There were a bunch of commits yesterday, maybe there's a bug? Can still get account tweets on my private instance and haven't updated yet.
  - johnhenry 4y ago
    Would you be able to post a working commit id?
    - dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
      Looks like I'm on 2ac3afa5b273a502d7632e9346c7c3bc9283fb48
- flkiwi 4y ago
  I might be misreading what you're saying (and if so, apologies), but I just went to nitter.net and pulled up a couple of accounts and they worked fine.
- SanjayMehta 4y ago
  It's inconsistent right now. Sometimes they show up, and the next minute they don't. My RSS feed off nitter.net has the complete text, no media.
keyle 4y ago
Could someone explain what nitter is?
- woofcat 4y ago
  https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
  - zugi 4y ago
    > It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled It's important to note that this is not a technical requirement but an intentional choice by Twitter. I used to surf Twitter with Javascript disabled. They'd show a little message telling me the experience was better with Javascript but that was all. A year or so ago they intentionally blocked reading Twitter without Javascript.
- smegsicle 4y ago
  it's a twitter scraper
  - cuteboy19 4y ago
    It's not scraping anything (implying storage). It's an alternative frontend.
    - DigiDigiorno 4y ago
      I've never used this, but took a quick look... An alternative frontend would simply be an alternative frontend to the backend... This is an alternative frontend to an alternative backend... (requests do not go from client to and from Twitter. Because of this, I find the "alternative frontend" terminology misleading at best.) Also, one man's "pulling data from an unofficial API" is another man's scraping, but I'm not gonna die on this hill because I see why it's arguably not.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  Lets you browse Twitter without being logged in and not getting the constant "you need to log in to keep reading!!" wall of messages. It just calls in to their API and builds a similar experience as the real site.
woofcat 4y ago
Nitter.ca is also down. I wonder if Twitter is bent out of shape.
aendruk 4y ago
Instance status aggregator: https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/ https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/
- cf100clunk 4y ago
  Excellent resource, thanks.
Waterluvian 4y ago
quickthrower2 4y ago
I like that it is just an nginx response. As if the web server is the lawyer.
concinds 4y ago
Though the problem with these national instances may be distinct, the main Nitter.net instance hasn't been working since October 25th apparently. This same issue (no tweets show up) remains today; I've experienced this bug for the past few weeks. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707 Musk announced his intent to deprecate the old Twitter API, which Nitter relies on, but it's unknown whether it's been done, or if it has anything to do with this (Nitter issues predate both the deprecation announcement, and, actually, Musk's takeover, though Nitter.it is only offline since recently). https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/730 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/730
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  Maybe you're using a bad mirror or have something funky in cookies/cache? I've been using nitter.net to read twitter just fine since that date. I've used it a bunch today even.
  - concinds 4y ago
    I was using uBlock Origin with a bunch of filters, could be it. Thankfully geohot removed the loginwall from Twitter, so I could just use that.
- aquova 4y ago
  I've been using nitter.net for RSS feeds, as well as occasionally visiting the site itself. I personally was having no issues with it up until a few hours ago, although it seems my feeds haven't had any new posts within the past two hours or so, and I don't see any tweets on nitter itself.
- deleted 4y ago
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- postingawayonhn 4y ago
  Nitter.net works fine for me.
  - 4y ago
jti107 4y ago
nitter.kavin.rocks worked for me
Acrobatic_Road 4y ago
Everyone needs to run their own instance. It isn't hard.
nells 4y ago
- pessimizer 4y ago
  Sometimes literal child porn gets posted on twitter (and "sometimes" at twitter scale means at all times by dozens or hundreds of accounts simultaneously.) Some law enforcement/politician may have gotten a report or run across something, and made a call.
  - zugi 4y ago
    To be clear this is totally baseless speculation that the government might have had a good reason for censoring a website.
tech234a 4y ago
"nitter.net was hit by a large bot attack which has caused weird rate limiting. Please use another instance." [1] [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/740#issuecomment-1329976896 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/740#issuecomment-132...
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kornhole 4y ago
Another backup solution is https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/ https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/ which can allow you to bring RSS feeds and a ton of other sources into your RSS reader. Couple this with libredirect add-on in your browser whenever you want to see more info.
blacklight 4y ago
I've got my own instance, and since the code is open-source everybody can run their own. Who has interest in keep playing this stupid whack-a-mole game with open-source software that anyone can run?

85 points by toastedwedge 4y ago

theCrowing 4y ago

Must be that freedom I was missing.

slater 4y ago
https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/
- cf100clunk 4y ago
  Working fine at this link in France so maybe not a European thing, Italian only? https://nitter.fdn.fr/ https://nitter.fdn.fr/
  - slater 4y ago
    Right, isn't nitter.net the main URL? shrug
    - cf100clunk 4y ago
      Not getting your point. I'm curious why the Nitter.it link came up with that message. Is it an Italy-only thing?
- burkaman 4y ago
  You can also use https://twiiit.com/ https://twiiit.com/ to redirect to a working and non-rate-limited instance.
- insane_dreamer 4y ago
  shows no tweets though
pessimizer 4y ago
Freedom from Italian censorship?

pinewurst 4y ago

You can connect to nitter.net but all account tweets seem gone.

dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
Can confirm. There were a bunch of commits yesterday, maybe there's a bug? Can still get account tweets on my private instance and haven't updated yet.
- johnhenry 4y ago
  Would you be able to post a working commit id?
  - dinosaurdynasty 4y ago
    Looks like I'm on 2ac3afa5b273a502d7632e9346c7c3bc9283fb48
flkiwi 4y ago
I might be misreading what you're saying (and if so, apologies), but I just went to nitter.net and pulled up a couple of accounts and they worked fine.
SanjayMehta 4y ago
It's inconsistent right now. Sometimes they show up, and the next minute they don't. My RSS feed off nitter.net has the complete text, no media.

keyle 4y ago

Could someone explain what nitter is?

woofcat 4y ago
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- zugi 4y ago
  > It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled It's important to note that this is not a technical requirement but an intentional choice by Twitter. I used to surf Twitter with Javascript disabled. They'd show a little message telling me the experience was better with Javascript but that was all. A year or so ago they intentionally blocked reading Twitter without Javascript.
smegsicle 4y ago
it's a twitter scraper
- cuteboy19 4y ago
  It's not scraping anything (implying storage). It's an alternative frontend.
  - DigiDigiorno 4y ago
    I've never used this, but took a quick look... An alternative frontend would simply be an alternative frontend to the backend... This is an alternative frontend to an alternative backend... (requests do not go from client to and from Twitter. Because of this, I find the "alternative frontend" terminology misleading at best.) Also, one man's "pulling data from an unofficial API" is another man's scraping, but I'm not gonna die on this hill because I see why it's arguably not.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Lets you browse Twitter without being logged in and not getting the constant "you need to log in to keep reading!!" wall of messages. It just calls in to their API and builds a similar experience as the real site.

woofcat 4y ago

Nitter.ca is also down. I wonder if Twitter is bent out of shape.

aendruk 4y ago

Instance status aggregator: https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/ https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/

cf100clunk 4y ago
Excellent resource, thanks.

Waterluvian 4y ago

quickthrower2 4y ago

I like that it is just an nginx response. As if the web server is the lawyer.

concinds 4y ago

Though the problem with these national instances may be distinct, the main Nitter.net instance hasn't been working since October 25th apparently. This same issue (no tweets show up) remains today; I've experienced this bug for the past few weeks. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707 Musk announced his intent to deprecate the old Twitter API, which Nitter relies on, but it's unknown whether it's been done, or if it has anything to do with this (Nitter issues predate both the deprecation announcement, and, actually, Musk's takeover, though Nitter.it is only offline since recently). https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/730 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/730

qbasic_forever 4y ago
Maybe you're using a bad mirror or have something funky in cookies/cache? I've been using nitter.net to read twitter just fine since that date. I've used it a bunch today even.
- concinds 4y ago
  I was using uBlock Origin with a bunch of filters, could be it. Thankfully geohot removed the loginwall from Twitter, so I could just use that.
aquova 4y ago
I've been using nitter.net for RSS feeds, as well as occasionally visiting the site itself. I personally was having no issues with it up until a few hours ago, although it seems my feeds haven't had any new posts within the past two hours or so, and I don't see any tweets on nitter itself.
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postingawayonhn 4y ago
Nitter.net works fine for me.
- 4y ago

jti107 4y ago

nitter.kavin.rocks worked for me

Acrobatic_Road 4y ago

Everyone needs to run their own instance. It isn't hard.

nells 4y ago

pessimizer 4y ago
Sometimes literal child porn gets posted on twitter (and "sometimes" at twitter scale means at all times by dozens or hundreds of accounts simultaneously.) Some law enforcement/politician may have gotten a report or run across something, and made a call.
- zugi 4y ago
  To be clear this is totally baseless speculation that the government might have had a good reason for censoring a website.

tech234a 4y ago

"nitter.net was hit by a large bot attack which has caused weird rate limiting. Please use another instance." [1] [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/740#issuecomment-1329976896 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/740#issuecomment-132...

deleted 4y ago

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kornhole 4y ago

Another backup solution is https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/ https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/ which can allow you to bring RSS feeds and a ton of other sources into your RSS reader. Couple this with libredirect add-on in your browser whenever you want to see more info.

blacklight 4y ago

I've got my own instance, and since the code is open-source everybody can run their own. Who has interest in keep playing this stupid whack-a-mole game with open-source software that anyone can run?