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# About
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Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on
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privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at
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<https://github.com/zedeus/nitter>
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- No JavaScript or ads
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- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
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- Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
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- Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no developer account required)
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- Lightweight (for [@nim_lang](/nim_lang), 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
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- RSS feeds
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- Themes
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- Mobile support (responsive design)
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- AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
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Nitter's GitHub wiki contains
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[instances](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances) and
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[browser extensions](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions)
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maintained by the community.
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## Why use Nitter?
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It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled, and as of 2024 you
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need to sign up. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and
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IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix,
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it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers,
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you can get accurately tracked with your [browser's
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fingerprint](https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/), [no
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JavaScript required](https://noscriptfingerprint.com/). This all became
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particularly important after Twitter [removed the
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ability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/twitter-removes-privacy-option-and-shows-why-we-need-strong-privacy-laws)
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for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.
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Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse
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Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to
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respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than
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Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).
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In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter
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users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a
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Twitter account.
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## Donating
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Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/zedeus \
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Patreon: https://patreon.com/nitter \
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BTC: bc1qpqpzjkcpgluhzf7x9yqe7jfe8gpfm5v08mdr55 \
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ETH: 0x24a0DB59A923B588c7A5EBd0dBDFDD1bCe9c4460 \
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XMR: 42hKayRoEAw4D6G6t8mQHPJHQcXqofjFuVfavqKeNMNUZfeJLJAcNU19i1bGdDvcdN6romiSscWGWJCczFLe9RFhM3d1zpL \
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SOL: ANsyGNXFo6osuFwr1YnUqif2RdoYRhc27WdyQNmmETSW \
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ZEC: u1vndfqtzyy6qkzhkapxelel7ams38wmfeccu3fdpy2wkuc4erxyjm8ncjhnyg747x6t0kf0faqhh2hxyplgaum08d2wnj4n7cyu9s6zhxkqw2aef4hgd4s6vh5hpqvfken98rg80kgtgn64ff70djy7s8f839z00hwhuzlcggvefhdlyszkvwy3c7yw623vw3rvar6q6evd3xcvveypt
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## Contact
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Feel free to join our [Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#nitter:matrix.org).
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