Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
- ID
- 17824
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Aug 2026, 1:08 AM
- Fetched
- 28 Aug 2026, 12:48 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 28 Aug 2026, 1:54 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
The Nitter repository (13.5k stars, 773 forks) was archived by its owner on Aug 25, 2026, and all public instances are down with rate-limit errors. The issue confirms that every public Nitter instance is non-functional.
Why it matters
If you or your product relied on Nitter for scraping or reading X/Twitter content without authentication, that pipeline is now dead. You need to migrate to the official X API (paid tiers) or find another data source immediately—there is no community-hosted fallback left.
Discussion angle
What are the realistic, cost-effective alternatives for accessing X/Twitter data now that the free unofficial route is fully closed—and is it worth building anything dependent on a platform that aggressively shuts down third-party access?