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Nitter is dead (github.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for a dumb question: so the original creator says the project is dead, but there's also a ton of hosted domains using nitter. So in theory could someone else pick up the project?

[–] thesmokingman 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The way that tweets were pulled has been disabled. Existing instances will slowly fail over the next few months. Here’s a good explainer comment.

Not a stupid question at all.