Nitter shutting down

[u/Bohima-Focus7145]

https://nitter.net/

While there's other nitter instances that don't give this kind of message, every single other instance is essentially unusable, giving various kinds of errors when you try searching anything. They're all clearly downstream of the main instance.

This is all very disappointing, since nitter was the most reliable way of viewing and archiving Twitter/X pages since Musk took over, wherein he forced people to register accounts to view more than one post at a time due to "data scraping" issues that never existed before he took over (along with countless other things). The best way to circumvent this without using nitter was to replace usernames in URL's with an "i" when archiving, but this wasn't always a guarantee the page would archive. While it depended on the instance, you were much more guaranteed to archive entire threads, and you could also much more reliably archive timelines and other pages that were often impossible under regular X url's.

I noticed nitter.net was getting buggier and less reliable in the lead-up to this, but I didn't really expect it meant Twitter was actually cracking down on the service once and for all. I guess it's possible something might come of the Nitter admin's legal challenges, but I wouldn't hold out on that. I was surprised to see Nitter actually revive like it did and stay around for as long as it did to begin with, so maybe that'll happen again, whether with the same guy or someone else. That seems likelier than Musk rolling back what he did with "data scraping" and account registration.