Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and
performance.
Inspired by the Invidious project.
No JavaScript required
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no developer account required)
Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from )
RSS feeds (instance-specific, often disabled due to abuse)
Mobile support (responsive design)
AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted
Embeds (see
Account system with timeline support
Archiving tweets/profiles
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The wiki contains
a list of instances and
browser extensions
maintained by the community.
It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled, and as of 2024 you
need to sign up. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and
IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix,
it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers,
you can get accurately tracked with your browser's
fingerprint, no
JavaScript required. This all became
particularly important after Twitter removed the
for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.
Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse
Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to
respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than
Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).
In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter
users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a
Twitter account.
redis/valkey
To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see
for details. It is possible
to install it system-wide or in the user directory you create below.
To compile the scss files, you need to install libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian,
you can use libsass-dev.
Redis is required for caching and in the future for account info. As of 2024
Redis is no longer open source, so using the fork Valkey is recommended. It
should be available on most distros as redis or redis-server
(Ubuntu/Debian), or valkey/valkey-server. Running it with the default
config is fine, Nitter's default config is set to use the default port and
Here's how to create a nitter user, clone the repo, and build the project
along with the scss and md files.
Set your hostname, port, HMAC key, https (must be correct for cookies), and
Redis info in . To run Redis, either run
redis-server --daemonize yes, or systemctl enable --now redis (or
redis-server depending on the distro). Run Nitter by executing ./nitter or
using the systemd service below. You should run Nitter behind a reverse proxy
such as Nginx or
Apache for security and
performance reasons.
Page for the Docker image:
To run Nitter with Docker, you'll need to install and run Redis separately
before you can run the container. See below for how to also run Redis using
First create your config file. The Docker commands mount it into the container,
so it has to exist on the host beforehand. If you've cloned the repo:
If you're using the prebuilt image without a local clone, download
and save it as instead.
To build and run Nitter in Docker:
A prebuilt Docker image is provided as well:
Using docker-compose to run both Nitter and Redis as different containers:
Change redisHost from localhost to nitter-redis in , then run:
Note the Docker commands mount (and for
docker-compose) from the directory you run them in. If a mounted file doesn't
exist, Docker silently creates a directory in its place and the container fails
with not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file. Remove
that directory and create the file as shown above.
To run Nitter via systemd you can use this service file:
Then enable and run the service:
systemctl enable --now
Nitter currently prints some errors to stdout, and there is no real logging
implemented. If you're running Nitter with systemd, you can check stdout like
this: journalctl -u (add --follow to see just the last 15
lines). If you're running the Docker image, you can do this:
docker logs --follow *nitter container id*
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