zedeus/nitter
- Total stars
- 14,485
- Today
- +0
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About the project
Alternative Twitter/X front-end without JavaScript, ads or tracking: all requests go through the backend and the client never talks to Twitter directly. Aimed at people who want to read tweets privately on lightweight pages.
Useful for
- Self-host a Nitter instance on a VPS via Docker or systemd
- Read Twitter/X timelines without JavaScript or ads while keeping your IP private
- Subscribe to instance-specific RSS feeds to follow accounts
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 4, 2026, 11:02 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Hacker News: “Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice” — 927 points, 27 days ago.
- The repository is archived — the author no longer develops it.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 1 · September 29, 2026. Days with data: 6.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 4, 2026, 09:24 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 14,485
- Today
- +0 stars on 2026-10-04 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Forks
- 1,365
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,341
- Watchers
- 181
- Language
- Nim
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Created
- June 20, 2019
- Last push
- September 7, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice927 points, September 6, 2026
- Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help479 points, October 11, 2026
- Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue271 points, September 6, 2026
- Nitter currently has no legal counsel9 points, October 10, 2026
Spotted in
- September 24, 2026GitHub Trending this month: #9, +1,046 stars
- September 23, 2026GitHub Trending this month: #9, +1,046 stars
- September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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