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

[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.