Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1358432/nitter-project-received-cease-and-desist
Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.
Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.
— zedeus, 25 August 2026
Photo source: Official website/instance— Archive.
More info: GitHub issue 1442.
6 replies
Same thing for XCancel too apparently. I don't use Twitter but I have been using Nitter to read one page this week, now I can't with either
that makes twitter even more irrelevant.
platforms used to want more users and traffic. we are really in retarded timeline
I look forward to the day that Twitter becomes Elon’s downfall.
Nothing came of grok generating CP, so I don't know if anything will.
With even truth social and bluesky building on the fediverse tech, twitter was an outdated scrapyard years ago.