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Nitter is working again

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

meepmorp wrote: post #3

So, is the AI Scrapocalypse no longer a critically important issue?

Probably he loudly threatened to fire his workshop elves so they worked through the nights and slept on old mattresses in the office so they could Make Twitter Scale Again and now all is well in Load Balancer land?

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Post by hospitalJail »

INTPenis wrote: post #4

Is this really permanent? I'd love to know more about this bearer token. Because in the other github issue thread it seemed like every time they found a way around Twitter's safeguards, it was shutdown. It seems like they've literally hard coded a token into the source code. Meaning thousands of nitter-instances, thousands of users, around the world, will use the same token. And potentially so will the AI companies.…

I think this is why NewPipe doesn't work most of the time.

Or if it does work, its absurdly slow.

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Post by lolinder »

hospitalJail wrote: post #12
INTPenis wrote: post #4

Is this really permanent? I'd love to know more about this bearer token. Because in the other github issue thread it seemed like every time they found a way around Twitter's safeguards, it was shutdown. It seems like they've literally hard coded a token into the source code. Meaning thousands of nitter-instances, thousands of users, around the world, will use the same token. And potentially so will the AI companies.…

I think this is why NewPipe doesn't work most of the time. Or if it does work, its absurdly slow.

NewPipe has been working for me for years with occasional breaking changes on YouTube's side that required an urgent update. I watch pretty much everything at 2x speed 1080p and have no issues with buffering.

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Post by joos3 »

This is absolutely amazing, as you still can’t view profiles or replies on Twitter without logging in.

I’ve been a nitter user for 4 years now and will be as long as it works.

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Post by zedeus »

eterps wrote: post #2

Displaying a timeline with multiple accounts seems still broken, but other than that it works fine.

Search, which is required for the multi-timeline feature, isn't implemented right now. I have a fix in the works using a legacy endpoint.

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Post by Macha »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #9
sheepscreek wrote: post #6

This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the private API is a herculean task. For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does, effectively. Kudos to the author for accomplishing this feat!

> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.

And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.

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Post by Macha »

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #17

This seems like Elon distributed free API tokens to specific 3rd party vendors?

What reason could he possibly have to give them to Nitter, which has at its primary purpose undermining their conversion and engagement attempts?

The old token was the twitter web token. I suspect the new one is one of the mobile clients. Maybe new tweetdeck. Though probably the iOS client token makes the most sense, being the hardest to rotate on a whim with app store review.

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