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# About
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Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on
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privacy. The source is available on GitHub at <https://github.com/zedeus/nitter>
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* No JavaScript or ads
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* All requests go through the backend, clients never talk to Twitter
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* Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
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* Uses unofficial API (no developer account required)
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* AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
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* Lightweight (for [@nim_lang](/nim_lang), 36KB vs 580KB from twitter.com)
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* Native RSS feeds
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Nitter's GitHub wiki contains a list of
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[instances](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances) and
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a list of [browser extensions](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions)
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maintained by the community.
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## Why use Nitter?
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It's basically impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. If you try,
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you're redirected to the legacy mobile version which is awful both functionally
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and aesthetically. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and
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potential IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using the legacy mobile
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version and a VPN, it's impossible.
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Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse
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Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to
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respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than
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Twitter, and in some cases serves pages faster.
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In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter
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users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a
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Twitter account.
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## Contact
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Feel free to join our Freenode IRC channel at #nitter, or our
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[Matrix server](https://matrix.to/#/#nitter:matrix.org).
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