Nitter

Nitter is a discontinued free and open source alternative viewer for Twitter/X, focusing on privacy and performance. Its minimalist and unaugmented UI resembles the classic Twitter desktop layout. Since the user cannot log in to Twitter through Nitter, Nitter has no notifications, no home feed and no ability to tweet. By default Nitter has no infinite scroll hence doomscrolling is unlikely. Nitter relied on creating a large amount of "guest accounts" using proxy servers in order to fetch content. The guest account feature was removed by X in January 2024, prompting the original developer of Nitter to pronounce the project "dead".

In addition to the official web instance, there are unofficial public web instances, as well as community-contributed mobile apps and browser extensions (for which there is also a list on Nitter's wiki) so browsers can auto-redirect Twitter URLs, and even randomize viewing requests across multiple instances. Nitter was funded by donations as well as a grant from NLnet's NGI fund.