Nitter

A free and open source alternative Twitter
front-end focused on privacy and performance.

Inspired by the Invidious project.

   

   

Features

  
  Prevents


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  Lightweight


  For @nim_lang, 60KB vs  


  784KB from Twitter.com  

        
  Provides


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         Mobile Support         


  Responsive  
  Design  

        
         AGPLv3 Licensed         


  Forbids Proprietary  
  Instances  

        
        Decoupled        

  From  

  Twitter  

  

Roadmap

  
  Embeds  
      ❯       
  Account System  
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  Timeline Support  
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  Archiving  

  Tweets / Profiles  
      ❯       
  Developer API  
  

Why

It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled.

For privacy - minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics
and IP - based tracking is important, but apart from using
a VPN and uBlock / uMatrix, it's impossible.

Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty
ad - blockers, you can get accurately tracked with
your browser's Fingerprint, no JavaScript required.

This all became particularly important after Twitter
removed the ability for users to control whether
their data gets sent to Advertisers.

Nitter

Using an instance of Nitter, hosted on a VPS for example,
you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining
your privacy.

In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average
around 15 times lighter than Twitter and in most cases it
serves pages faster ( timelines load 2 - 4 times faster )

In the future a simple account system will be added that
lets you follow Twitter users, allowing you to have a clean
chronological timeline without needing a Twitter account.

Contact

You can email me at [email protected]
if you wish to speak to me personally.