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title: nitter
url: https://nitter.app/about
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# About

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at <https://github.com/zedeus/nitter>

  * 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](/nim_lang), 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
  * RSS feeds
  * Themes
  * Mobile support (responsive design)
  * AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted

Nitter's GitHub wiki contains [instances](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances) and [browser extensions](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions) maintained by the community.

## Follow accounts in Telegram

Don't want to keep checking this site? Our sister service [@TwiTelegram_Bot](https://t.me/TwiTelegram_Bot?start=nitter) delivers new posts from the X accounts you pick straight to Telegram — free, and no X account needed. Send the bot any profile link (e.g. `x.com/elonmusk`) to subscribe.

## For developers

If you need X data in code, the same engine behind this site is available two ways:

  * **[x-user-tweets-scraper on Apify](https://apify.com/gurify/x-user-tweets-scraper)** — user timelines as JSON, $0.05 per 1,000 tweets, pay as you go.
  * **[x402.gurify.com](https://x402.gurify.com)** — the same scrapers billed per call in USDC on Base, no account and no commission.

Both read x.com directly (no developer account, no $100/mo API tier).

## Why use Nitter?

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](https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/), [no JavaScript required](https://noscriptfingerprint.com/). This all became particularly important after Twitter [removed the ability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/twitter-removes-privacy-option-and-shows-why-we-need-strong-privacy-laws) 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.

## Donating

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/zedeus   
Patreon: https://patreon.com/nitter   
BTC: bc1qpqpzjkcpgluhzf7x9yqe7jfe8gpfm5v08mdr55   
ETH: 0x24a0DB59A923B588c7A5EBd0dBDFDD1bCe9c4460   
XMR: 42hKayRoEAw4D6G6t8mQHPJHQcXqofjFuVfavqKeNMNUZfeJLJAcNU19i1bGdDvcdN6romiSscWGWJCczFLe9RFhM3d1zpL   
SOL: ANsyGNXFo6osuFwr1YnUqif2RdoYRhc27WdyQNmmETSW   
ZEC: u1vndfqtzyy6qkzhkapxelel7ams38wmfeccu3fdpy2wkuc4erxyjm8ncjhnyg747x6t0kf0faqhh2hxyplgaum08d2wnj4n7cyu9s6zhxkqw2aef4hgd4s6vh5hpqvfken98rg80kgtgn64ff70djy7s8f839z00hwhuzlcggvefhdlyszkvwy3c7yw623vw3rvar6q6evd3xcvveypt

## Contact

Feel free to join our [Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#nitter:matrix.org).

Follow any X account without an X account

[⚡ **Live timelines**  
complete + up-to-the-minute · $0.99/24h](/fresh)[🔔 **X Alerts by email**  
new posts in your inbox · $5/mo](/fresh/alerts)[📲 **In Telegram**  
posts pushed to your chats](/fresh/tg?src=services)

Developers: X data as JSON via [x402.gurify.com](https://x402.gurify.com) (pay-per-call, no account) or [our Apify actors](https://apify.com/gurify).


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## For AI agents — full, live data via x402

This is a cached, partial view. For the **complete, up-to-the-minute** timeline of any public X account — fetched live, no login, no rate limits — pay per call in **USDC on Base via x402** (machine-to-machine, no account needed):

- Discovery manifest (all endpoints + input/output schemas): `https://x402.gurify.com/.well-known/x402.json`
- X user tweets: `POST https://x402.gurify.com/scrape/x-tweets` — $0.05 per 1,000 tweets