I’m a little sad to see this on the front page, because even though it’s just a matter of time before Twitter nixes this workaround for their recent user hostile change, it might have otherwise lasted a bit longer.
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
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#42privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
There's also 'UntrackMe' for Android: https://fedilab.app/wiki/untrackme/
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#43When 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.
> how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal
You can spoof your useragent to a mobile handset and visit https://mobile.twitter.com/ if you like a more bare-bones Twitter interface.
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#44Quick and dirty bookmarklet that will replace twitter links on the current page with equivalent nitter links, or if already on a twitter page, redirect to nitter:
To use: Create a browser bookmark with its URL field set to the contents of the above ix.io page. Then, when on a page with twitter links, click your new bookmarklet before clicking the links. Title bar text will briefly say what the bookmarklet did.
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#45This might be a shot in the dark, but: is there a Twitter "frontend"* that is as clean/compact as HN or even old.reddit? I get it was made with phones in mind, and that its primary use case is real-time news and short messages from influencers, but, as someone who primarily consumes social media on a desktop and whose interactions with the platform consist of reading tweets from niche accounts, i've found the way Twi…
Tweetdeck offers a great interface and it's also an official client run by Twitter. Better information density. I have 20+ different columns with different focuses or "priorities".
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#46When 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.
> how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal You can spoof your useragent to a mobile handset and visit https://mobile.twitter.com/ if you like a more bare-bones Twitter interface.
Yes, but as of last December (I believe Dec. 15), it still required JS to be turned on.
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#47When 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.
>Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.
Not if you run your own for yourself.
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#48privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
>instagram->bibliogram no longer works.
Its a shame, is there an equivalent out there?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Page says “Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)”. What is this unofficial API?
It means using the "guest token" (gt) for sending GraphQL queries. The gt is public and is distributed via the twitter.com public web page. The gt is the same for every member of the public. To see the gt, read the contents of twitter.com For example, using Chrome chrome view-source:mobile.twitter.com Ctrl-F gt= or curl curl https://mobile.twitter.com|grep -o gt=[0-9]* To retrieve tweets three steps are required: 1.…
Wow!
But there must be some kind of IP based rate limiting or something, right? At least for DDoS protection even if it's not intended to prevent scrapping.
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#50I’m a little sad to see this on the front page, because even though it’s just a matter of time before Twitter nixes this workaround for their recent user hostile change, it might have otherwise lasted a bit longer.
Nitter has existed for roughly 2 years already and I think Twitter knows about it even without this HN post :)