Twitter’s sidebar, crammed with accounts to comply with and trending subjects, are gone. So are the pop-ups asking me to allow notifications, the ads, and the view counts on all tweets. It’s like a breath of contemporary air, and it is good for tweets with out getting pulled into the Twitter rabbit gap. Even higher: It typically masses sooner than Twitter itself.
Here’s how to arrange your pc or cell gadget to redirect any and all Twitter hyperlinks you open to Nitter as a substitute.
Install an Extension or App
You can simply change any Twitter URL to a Nitter URL by merely changing “twitter.com” with “nitter.net”—for instance: Instead of twitter.com/WIRED, you’ll sort nitter.net/wired. This, after all, is tedious, which is why I like to recommend putting in a instrument that does the job for you routinely.
Nitter’s GitHub web page offers a list of extensions. For Chrome customers I like to recommend beginning with Nitter Redirect. Firefox customers can take a look at Twitter to Nitter Redirect. Android customers can set up twitter2nitter. Mac Safari customers, in addition to iPhone, and iPad customers, can set up the $2 Privacy Redirect (in case you’d favor a free possibility, there is a Shortcut you can configure instead, you simply want to do some work to get it working the way in which you need).
After putting in, all Twitter hyperlinks you click on ought to open in Nitter as a substitute of Twitter.
Not Working? Try a Different Instance
Nitter generally will get overwhelmed, which is able to lead to error messages like “Tweet not found” for tweets you understand exist. In these cases I like to recommend switching to a unique Nitter “instance,” which is basically only a totally different server operating the service. There’s a list of Nitter instances on Nitter’s GitHub web page that’s commonly up to date. Copy one from the nation you reside in, or only one with a URL you want, then head to your redirecting browser extension or app of alternative. This ought to remedy the issue in virtually all cases.
Of course, there’s all the time an opportunity that Twitter makes an attempt to shut down Nitter the way in which they did different third-party apps. This might be onerous, although, as a result of as a substitute of counting on an API the way in which these apps did, Nitter simply scrapes the Twitter web site, and anybody with the related abilities can rapidly arrange their very own occasion. If it does cease working, although, we might all the time hang out on Mastodon instead.
