经法律咨询后，Nitter项目将继续运营
英文原标题: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue
X Corp于2026年8月24日向Nitter发出停止函，要求永久下架其服务与代码库。经法律咨询后，Nitter项目将继续运营，更多细节将很快公布。
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On 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository. UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.
A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
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The wiki contains a list of instances and browser extensions maintained by the community.
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, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly important after Twitter removed the ability 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.
To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to install it system-wide or in the user directory you create below.
To compile the scss files, you need to install libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev.
Redis is required for caching and in the future for account info. As of 2024 Redis is no longer open source, so using the fork Valkey is recommended. It should be available on most distros as redis or redis-server (Ubuntu/Debian), or valkey/valkey-server. Running it with the default config is fine, Nitter’s default config is set to use the default port and localhost.
Here’s how to create a nitter user, clone the repo, and build the project along with the scss and md files.
Set your hostname, port, HMAC key, https (must be correct for cookies), and Redis info in nitter.conf. To run Redis, either run redis-server —daemonize yes, or systemctl enable —now redis (or redis-server depending on the distro). Run Nitter by executing ./nitter or using the systemd service below. You should run Nitter behind a reverse proxy such as Nginx or Apache for security and performance reasons.
Page for the Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/zedeus/nitter
To run Nitter with Docker, you’ll need to install and run Redis separately before you can run the container. See below for how to also run Redis using Docker.
First create your config file. The Docker commands mount it into the container, so it has to exist on the host beforehand. If you’ve cloned the repo:
If you’re using the prebuilt image without a local clone, download nitter.example.conf and save it as nitter.conf instead.
To build and run Nitter in Docker:
A prebuilt Docker image is provided as well:
Using docker-compose to run both Nitter and Redis as different containers: Change redisHost from localhost to nitter-redis in nitter.conf, then run:
Note the Docker commands mount nitter.conf (and sessions.jsonl for docker-compose) from the directory you run them in. If a mounted file doesn’t exist, Docker silently creates a directory in its place and the container fails with not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file. Remove that directory and create the file as shown above.
To run Nitter via systemd you can use this service file:
Then enable and run the service: systemctl enable —now nitter.service
Nitter currently prints some errors to stdout, and there is no real logging implemented. If you’re running Nitter with systemd, you can check stdout like this: journalctl -u nitter.service (add —follow to see just the last 15 lines). If you’re running the Docker image, you can do this: docker logs —follow nitter container id
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Alternative Twitter front-end