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Nitter

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

Inspired by the Invidious project.



Button Instances    Button Extensions

Button Building    Button Support



Features


  
  Prevents


  Fingerprinting  


  IP Tracking  

  
      
  Lightweight


  For @nim_lang, 60KB vs  


  784KB from Twitter.com  

  
      
  Provides


  RSS Feeds  


  Themes  

  

  
  No


                 Account Required         Advertisements                      


  Rate Limiting                    JavaScript       

  

  
         Mobile Support         


  Responsive  
  Design  

  
      
         AGPLv3 Licensed         


  Forbids Proprietary  
  Instances  

  
      
        Decoupled        

  From  

  Twitter
  

  



Roadmap


  
  Embeds  
  
    ❯       
  Account System  
  +  
  Timeline Support  
  
    ❯       
  Archiving  

  Tweets / Profiles  
  
    ❯       
  Developer API  
  



Showcase



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.


Languages

  • Nim 68.4%
  • SCSS 14.9%
  • Python 11.8%
  • CSS 3.2%
  • JavaScript 1.5%
  • Dockerfile 0.2%