# zedeus/nitter

> 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.

- Magnitude: 0.2 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 14,485 total · +0 stars on 2026-10-04 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Nim · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2019-06-20 · Last push: 2026-09-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter · Homepage: https://nitter.net · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zedeus/nitter

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,365
- Issues and pull requests: 1,341
- Watchers: 181
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: 10 per day

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-21 0.4, 09-22 0.4, 09-23 0.5, 09-24 0.7, 09-25 0.6, 09-26 0.3, 09-27 0.4, 09-28 0.1, 09-29 0.2, 09-30 0.2, 10-01 0.2, 10-02 0.2, 10-03 0.3, 10-04 0.2

## Hacker News

- Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice — 927 points, 410 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588988
- Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help — 479 points, 255 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682
- Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue — 271 points, 1 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589003
- Nitter currently has no legal counsel — 9 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033537

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-04 11:02 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.