Is Nitter really gone?
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YEA. ELON KILLED IT.
Using another instance solves the problem.
Twitter is dead. Long live the Nostr.
I've been following the Nitter issue thread on GitHub regarding the most recent X (formerly Twitter) changes which have caused a disruption for Nitter instances. The issue is that X removed the last known API endpoint for obtaining X guest accounts.
Nitter instances may still be online today, but their existing auth tokens for their guest accounts are going to expire in less than 30 days. After which point there is no method to get tweet data using a guest account.
Nitter can survive these X changes, if the devs adapt the code to use regular X user accounts instead of (discontinued) guest accounts. Some Nitter operators are already doing this, but the solution does not scale like guest accounts did.
Because of rate-limiting rules, authenticated accounts can only retrieve so many tweets in a given time. This might be okay for a small Nitter instance with a handful of users, but a large public instance would need hundreds or thousands of X accounts to have enough requests to meet demand.
Another way forward is for operators to pay X for official API access, but this might not be something they are willing to do. Ultimately it's unclear at this point and only time will tell the fate of Nitter.
It's almost gone, and the public instance will fade away.