Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters
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The open-source Nitter project, which provided a front-end for reading X without an account, has been forced offline after receiving cease-and-desist letters demanding its removal. The takedown notices led to the shutdown of the Nitter website, ending a service that had operated for seven years.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·Nitter project received cease and desist
- TechMeme·Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Nitter, an open-source front-end that lets users view X posts without logging in, received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding the service be taken down. Following the legal threat, the Nitter.net domain was shut down and is now offline. The takedown underscores X’s enforcement of its API and branding policies against unofficial access methods.
- The Next Web·Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters
X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters to the open-source Nitter project, ordering the permanent removal of all Nitter instances and its GitHub repository by 5 p.m. Eastern on 25 August. The letters cite alleged violations of the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act and the Lanham Act. Consequently, Nitter.net and the XCancel front-end were taken offline, and remaining instances are attempting to stay operational.
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