Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

#1

Post by ducktective » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 7:56 PM UTC

Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
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#2

Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849744

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#3

Post by jchw » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

When Nitter first came around, it was incredible. It really goes to show just how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal. Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.

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#4

Post by argvargc » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

Could this be used as a base to fork the existing ecosystem away from centralised control and back to its users? Say using decentralised storage and a synched side chain?

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#5

Post by leephillips » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:08 PM UTC

jchw wrote: post #3

When Nitter first came around, it was incredible. It really goes to show just how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal. Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.

Page says “Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)”. What is this unofficial API?

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#6

Post by debarshri » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:10 PM UTC

Is it just me who thinks UI/UX of the web app feels like MySpace?

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#7

Post by terafo » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:20 PM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #5

jchw wrote: post #3

When Nitter first came around, it was incredible. It really goes to show just how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal. Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.

Page says “Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)”. What is this unofficial API?

I would guess that it's some kind of reverse-engineered internal API that official apps use.

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#8

Post by 0-_-0 » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

argvargc wrote: post #4

Could this be used as a base to fork the existing ecosystem away from centralised control and back to its users? Say using decentralised storage and a synched side chain?

That would be amazing. Even an opt-in system that automatically mirrors your tweets to Mastodon or something would be useful.

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#9

Post by Lammy » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:27 PM UTC

debarshri wrote: post #6

Is it just me who thinks UI/UX of the web app feels like MySpace?

I choose to interpret this as praise and hope that was intended :)

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#10

Post by ruined » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

argvargc wrote: post #4

Could this be used as a base to fork the existing ecosystem away from centralised control and back to its users? Say using decentralised storage and a synched side chain?

twitter ratelimits nitter servers, so you'd need every individual user (or a good portion of users) running a personal server and then you'd have to collate the data somehow. and at that level of effort it would be easier to just convince people to use mastodon.