The last of the public specimens nitter became unusable. The Nitter project developed a free front-end for access to X.com/twitter without imposing JavaScript, analysts, trackers, and third-party services. On January 31, the issuance of tokens used in Nitter was stopped to organize access to content in X.com. On February 26, the life of the last of the previously issued tokens expired, which led to a complete stop of the work of Nitter.
After the purchase by Elon Musk, Twitter (now renamed X) began to introduce a set of technical and organizational measures aimed at aggressive monetization of the platform previously considered a loss-making one. Among the changes, the tariffing of the information received by each account was implemented (introduced limits for different types of accounts – 10,000 for owners of a paid “blue tick”, 1000 for ordinary, 500 for new ordinary); transferred to the category of paid accounts of “developers” with limits suitable for mass data extraction (Skraping); The return of information to users without accounts has been stopped.
As an excuse publicly approved (2023-07-01) that this “Temporary emergency measures” associated with the fact that automated loading data by bots leads to a deterioration in the service for ordinary users. Prior to this (2023-04-19) were insinuations to Microsoft, related to the fact that this company is illegally using Twitter data for training AI. Later (2023-11-17), the introduction of limits justified with bots.
Nitter was a project for the development for protection from surveillance Twitter users who do not send messages, but only reading materials by providing them with an alternative site for viewing Twitter, which does not require