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Nitter continues despite legal pressure from X

Nitter, a privacy-friendly alternative frontend for X, continues its activities despite legal pressure from Elon Musk's platform. X previously accused Nitter of illegally bypassing the X API and scraping posts.

Nitter has sought legal advice and decided to continue, as the project writes on its homepage. The official instance and third-party ones will be back online soon. Nitter also says it will make an announcement within a week.

Nitter offers an alternative way to view posts on X, protecting user privacy in the process. The open-source project received a letter from X last month, stating that Nitter must cease its activities. X claims that Nitter and related services illegally bypass X's API and illegally use associated data. Elon Musk's social network also claimed to have evidence that Nitter scrapes data from X and has access to X accounts and session tokens. This goes against X's rules.

X also restricted API access for Nitter in 2024. The service then temporarily went offline. Users subsequently had to link an X account to their Nitter instance to regain access to posts on X.

Tweakers previously wrote an extensive article about the legality of Nitter and similar projects.

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