it’s been super useful for people who don’t have a twitter account or for people who don’t want to feed the twitter beast.
multiple of the mirrors have been down today—nitter.net has also been showing “…not found…” messages to me all day as well.
It's important to note that this is not a technical requirement but an intentional choice by Twitter. I used to surf Twitter with Javascript disabled. They'd show a little message telling me the experience was better with Javascript but that was all. A year or so ago they intentionally blocked reading Twitter without Javascript.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707
Musk announced his intent to deprecate the old Twitter API, which Nitter relies on, but it's unknown whether it's been done, or if it has anything to do with this (Nitter issues predate both the deprecation announcement, and, actually, Musk's takeover, though Nitter.it is only offline since recently).
Do you think that the API has only been deprecated for the few instances that people have noticed are down at the moment, while dozens of other instances are running smoothly?
As a Libredirect user, probably a fifth of listed instances are totally down and a good third are rate limited at any particular moment.
My RSS feed off nitter.net has the complete text, no media.
There were a bunch of commits yesterday, maybe there's a bug? Can still get account tweets on my private instance and haven't updated yet.
[1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/740#issuecomment-132...
