nitter

Nitter NoteOn 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository. UPDATE 10 October 2026: I'm seeking funding and legal help. See nitter.net for more details. A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project. Features No JavaScript required Zero ads All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no developer account required) Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com) RSS feeds (instance-specific, often disabled due to abuse) Themes Mobile support (responsive design) AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted Roadmap Embeds (see https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Embeds-guide) Account system with timeline support Donations BTC: bc1qpqpzjkcpgluhzf7x9yqe7jfe8gpfm5v08mdr55 ETH: 0x24a0DB59A923B588c7A5EBd0dBDFDD1bCe9c4460 XMR: 42hKayRoEAw4D6G6t8mQHPJHQcXqofjFuVfavqKeNMNUZfeJLJAcNU19i1bGdDvcdN6romiSscWGWJCczFLe9RFhM3d1zpL SOL: FF5bheiD5AqPEdc3eyjymJ8AoMRF1hS78Ht6FiSZZF1t $Nitter: 4fSxCKc91ELQYVdv3tmHW8R15KoALPwEngyoQe1Xpump ZEC: u1vndfqtzyy6qkzhkapxelel7ams38wmfeccu3fdpy2wkuc4erxyjm8ncjhnyg747x6t0kf0faqhh2hxyplgaum08d2wnj4n7cyu9s6zhxkqw2aef4hgd4s6vh5hpqvfken98rg80kgtgn64ff70djy7s8f839z00hwhuzlcggvefhdlyszkvwy3c7yw623vw3rvar6q6evd3xcvveypt Resources The wiki contains a list of instances and browser extensions maintained by the community. Why? It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled, and as of 2024 you need to sign up. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked with your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly important after Twitter removed the ability for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers. Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster). In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a Twitter account. Screenshot Installation Dependencies libpcre libsass redis/valkey To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to install it system-wide or in the user directory you create below. To compile the scss files, you need to install libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev. Redis is required for caching and in the future for account info. As of 2024 Redis is no longer open source, so using the fork Valkey is recommended. It should be available on most distros as redis or redis-server (Ubuntu/Debian), or valkey/valkey-server. Running it with the default config is fine, Nitter's default config is set to use the default port and localhost. Here's how to create a nitter user, clone the repo, and build the project along with the scss and md files. # useradd -m nitter # su nitter $ git clone https://github.com/zedeus/nitter $ cd nitter $ nimble -l build -d:danger --mm:refc $ nimble -l scss $ nimble -l md $ cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf Set your hostname, port, HMAC key, https (must be correct for cookies), and Redis info in nitter.conf. To run Redis, either run redis-server --daemonize yes, or systemctl enable --now redis (or redis-server depending on the distro). Run Nitter by executing ./nitter or using the systemd service below. You should run Nitter behind a reverse proxy such as Nginx or Apache for security and performance reasons. Docker Page for the Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/zedeus/nitter NOTE: The published image is multi-arch — zedeus/nitter:latest runs natively on both amd64 and arm64. To run Nitter with Docker, you'll need to install and run Redis separately before you can run the container. See below for how to also run Redis using Docker. First create your config file. The Docker commands mount it into the container, so it has to exist on the host beforehand. If you've cloned the repo: cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf If you're using the prebuilt image without a local clone, download nitter.example.conf and save it as nitter.conf instead. To build and run Nitter in Docker: docker build -t nitter:latest . docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network host nitter:latest A prebuilt Docker image is provided as well: docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network host zedeus/nitter:latest Using docker-compose to run both Nitter and Redis as different containers: Change redisHost from localhost to nitter-redis in nitter.conf, then run: docker-compose up -d Note the Docker commands mount nitter.conf (and sessions.jsonl for docker-compose) from the directory you run them in. If a mounted file doesn't exist, Docker silently creates a directory in its place and the container fails with not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file. Remove that directory and create the file as shown above. systemd To run Nitter via systemd you can use this service file: [Unit] Description=Nitter (An alternative Twitter front-end) After=syslog.target After=network.target [Service] Type=simple # set user and group User=nitter Group=nitter # configure location WorkingDirectory=/home/nitter/nitter ExecStart=/home/nitter/nitter/nitter Restart=always RestartSec=15 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Then enable and run the service: systemctl enable --now nitter.service Logging Nitter currently prints some errors to stdout, and