I don't know if it's happening to you like me, but since Elon Musk bought Twitter, it's not that internal changes are being made that we may not know or understand, but there are also others that are obvious. For a few days now, my chronology is, without exaggeration, four tweets from accounts that I follow and one for advertising. In addition, it is well known that, like the big technology companies, Twitter uses our information (such as "likes") for whatever it wants. If you are looking for an alternative, the best is nitter, and we explain the reasons.
Nitter is the brainchild of developer zedeus, and, as he himself explains, is based on Invidious. The most widely used video service in the world is YouTube, but behind it is a Google that, if it could, would even get into our bed and our bathroom (the latter already does, albeit indirectly). Invidious shows YouTube content, but with a different interface, prioritizing privacy and without ads. Quality is a separate issue. It is worth mentioning freetube, a client for this platform.
Nitter does not display advertising
In Nitter's list of functions we find that it uses AGPLv3 license, and no proprietary instances are allowed. And it is that, like Invidious or Mastodon, anyone can host an instance of this service. But this is part of what is not seen. In what we do see, we find different themes and use a responsive design that looks good on mobile.
But aside from privacy, one of Nitter's strengths is that no need to create an account to see what's happening on Elon Musk's network. Just go to on the web and do a search. The bad thing is that this does not serve to have a chronology, but everything has a solution that we will explain later.
Continuing with what Nitter has for us, no javascript required, although it is necessary if we want to play the videos that come from Twitter. Infinite scrolling is also being developed, and in order to make use of this feature, currently in beta, JavaScript is also required (activating this is optional). What it does not have is advertising.
We never "call" Twitter
All requests are made in the background, in the backend, so Twitter will not be able to know anything about our use of its network, nor can it follow our IP or create a footprint. makes use of a unofficial API from Twitter, and you don't need a developer account or have any limits. Well, yes, the same ones from Twitter. For example, we will not be able to "follow" more than 25 accounts as we will explain below. The reason? That Twitter searches of more than 25 accounts cannot be carried out using the OR operator.
The current list of functions is completed by the possibility of following accounts with through a RSS news feed. To do this, just click on the feed icon, which is like the WiFi icon but tilted, and it will take us to the page. We can also put a username after nitter.net/ followed by another slash and the word feed (for example, nitter.net/pablinux/feed).
Now, it's not perfect. The feed shows all the user action, and that may not be what we want. Also, how are the accounts tracked?
Future-Proofed Changes for Nitter
In the future it will be possible to embed tweets (or should we call them "nitts"?), which can be used to include them in articles like this, and will also create an account system with support for chronology, also known in its Anglo-Saxon version as "timeline". On the other hand, an API for developers will be launched and it will be possible to archive tweets and profiles, which translated means that there will be a kind of Like/Favorite and accounts can be followed.
But can't they continue now? No and yes. Currently we cannot create an account and hit "follow", so although there are changes that are saved in our browser's cookies, in theory it cannot be followed. But we can use a trick to create ourselves our own timeline.
It can be tedious, but it's worth it if we want to escape the clutches of Twitter in the best way. The trick is to write a long URL that contains everything we want to see. For example, if you want to follow pablinux, which is not me but it serves as an example, you have to make the URL be https://nitter.net/pablinux. If we want to continue and have a timeline with Ubuntu, Fedora and Manjaro (don't criticize my choice; I only use it because I know they are active), what we have to do is add all the accounts separated by commas, and the example would look like https://nitter.net/ubuntu,fedora,manjarolinux (click in the link to see how it looks). It would only be necessary to save the link in favorites so as not to have to write it manually every time we want to take a look at it.
Goodbye Twitter...
… if you want more privacy and can live without its social component. I'll leave my account inactive, you never know what can happen, but I'm going to Nitter.
I'm programming, as entertainment, a front on this front. :-D
In my case it is a python development with Flask that allows to manage lists, creating them, adding users, etc. and creating a timeline with all of them from the nitter feed.
Let's see what the thing is.
Greetings.