nitter

[melannen]

As a person who has not had a twitter account for many years, if you are deleting your account there for whatever reason but would still like to be able to read tweets from favorite people or follow links on other blogs, may I introduce you to: http://nitter.it

It mirrors twitter but removes the annoying popups that block non-signed-in people from reading. (It also removes a lot of other annoying javascript, and just shows you the tweets.)

for example: https://nitter.it/JortsTheCat

I have no idea how much using it annoys Twitter or messes with their analytics, but they definitely don't *like* like it, so you are at least being a little bit annoying. Who knows if New Twitter will deliberately break it, but so far they've been pretty good at routing around roadblocks. I have a browser extension that automatically redirects all Twitter links and so far have never had a problem.

It also provides easy RSS feeds of twitters, if you are an RSS person! (I have no idea if twitter still has them or not, but if they do I can't easily dig them out without an account.)

Comments

[luzula]

Thank you, very helpful!! I occasionally want to check out someone's account, but don't want one of my own.

[melannen]

Yes! I quit twitter for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture and never regretted it, but I had a list of a dozen or so I would catch up on sometimes in big batches, and I would use it for super-local-breaking-news, and I had a few RL friends where that was the best place to find out what they were doing, so when they started making that impossible to do without an account nitter was a lifesaver.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I've been betwixt and between so long only now are people grasping I'm virtually from a paradox; this is news I may use, once things aren't so hectic here.

[watersword]

Oooh, link to the browser extension so I don't accidentally go to the blue bird hellsite?

[melannen]

It wasn't nitter-specific, it was just one that let you put in whatever redirects you want at domain level. If you look you can probably find one for your browser. I can give you exactly what I have when I get home though!

[watersword]

Thanks -- I'm on Firefox, if that helps.

[melannen]

Ah, I'm using Redirector on Chromium apparently, so I'm not sure if there's a direct equivalent for Firefox. (But it's literally just the first one I found looking for a chromium extension for automatic redirects.)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Yeah, that's part of the issues I've been having. I'm in the kernel but still on a qwerty. People of the jesplz, save us all have been cracking apricots and consuming raw almonds etc

Be further edified at Trader Joe's should you have one. (They're decorative brooms that specify on their label what they are and aren't for.)

[pedanther]

For Firefox, there's a Nitter Redirect add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redirect/

It specifically only requires the minimum permissions required to recognise Twitter-related URLs, which I appreciate.

[watersword]

Thank you! New fave extension.

[trobadora]

Twitter does not have RSS feeds! Which is why I turned to nitter some while ago. It's great. :)

[melannen]

RSS feeds, my beloved!

You can tell when a website is 100% selling users to advertisers instead of providing a service to customers when it drops RSS feeds.

[shipperslist]

OHHHH THANK YOU! Twitter is the only place where most of my favorite podcasts/audiodramas are and so far, it's been an absolute HELL to try to keep up with them. This is so helpful!

[melannen]

I hope it helps! Putting RSS feeds on DW is so great for things like that.

[tei]

LOVE NITTER. afaik Twitter doesn't allow RSS feeds, so those I have are set up on Nitter and work great.

[melannen]

Yes! I may have to go see if any of the twitters I follow have DW feeds yet.

[scintilla10]

Oh, I didn't know about this. It looks so useful, thank you!

[melannen]

I hope it helps, it's been a lifesaver for me!

[pauraque]

Oh awesome!! I haven't actively used Twitter in years and years, but there are a few accounts I check for updates, and I hate going to the actual site and being bombarded with crap I don't want to see.

[igenlode]

Oh, nice one. Bookmarked.

(As a user without JavaScript, I've been blocked from viewing Twitter accounts for years unless someone posts a screencap of what they're trying to comment on...)