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Nitter and XCancel Are Back — Which Twitter Viewer Should You Use in 2026?
For a few days, it looked like two of the best-known ways to read public posts on X were about to...
Nitter is back to let you see X posts without logging in.
After going offline in August because of “cease and desist letters” sent by X, the website for the open source project has an…
Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice
Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly
X shuts Nitter down with cease-and-desist letters
X Corp demanded a permanent takedown of Nitter and its repository. The open-source X reader and XCancel are both offline after…
Nitter And XCancel Shutdown After ‘Cease And Desist’ From Elon Musk’s X
XCancel, which let users read X posts and feeds without visiting the social website or app, was popular on forums where links to…
Nitter, which let you read X posts without using X, is offline.
The GitHub page for the open source project says that, on Monday, “cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a…