That’s not winning a war…that’s isolating your garbage company further.
Apparently he just bought and trashed Twitter because that kid was tracking his plane
It has been a while that Nitter shut down. Still a pity, a few artists posted only there
The only reason to still check Twitter is to see if they have moved off Twitter yet.
The brief explanation is that Nitter worked by creating “guest accounts”, which were a leftover from when you used to be able to use the Twitter mobile app without an account. After creation, these accounts lasted for a month. The time since the ability to create these accounts was removed is nearing (has reached?) a month
Posted only on nitter? Isn’t nitter only a frontend for twitter? I don’t think nitter has their own backend, but I can be wrong.
This service going down and me recently deciding to try to check in on whether some people I used to follow on Twitter had migrated elsewhere made me realize how much Twitter’s basically isolated itself from the open web.
A part of me hopes this serves as a wake-up call for those that were still hovering between using Twitter and weaning off it using services like this, to reach out to those they follow and let them know, “Hey, if you think you’re still posting publicly…You’re not, only other people here can see this.” For many people that may not matter, but for creators/influencers? I dunno, maybe network effect is enough that they feel the large audience there is plenty, but I’d think they might want as broad of a reach as possible, and a popular but limited view platform isn’t necessarily that.
Much more importantly though are any government/critical services. They really need to be brought up to date, if they haven’t been already, that the platform is no longer as publicly accessible as it may have once been. Also the same applies not just for Twitter but Facebook and the like as well, but that’s another topic.
How come every 3 weeks there is a news that nitter is now dead, and then I go to the Nitter Instance Health Monitor, pick a random instance, and am still able to surf tweets?
I dont get it. Is this wishfull thinking or do people not understand that instances other than nitter.net exist?
EDIT: I gotta admit, there is a lot of red in the last days. But it is not completely gone. Yet.
Article text:
There are still some active Nitter instances, but they are expected to shut down in the near future as the remaining tokens expire. Three weeks ago, Zed wrote on GitHub that “Nitter is dead.”
Guess I won’t be opening any twitter links anymore 🤷
