cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1358432/nitter-project-received-cease-and-desist

Cease and desist

On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

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— zedeus, 25 August 2026

Photo source: Official website/instance— Archive.

More info: GitHub issue 1442.

how dare they view publicly accessible information?!?!

xcancel is still up, afaik.

swear to god if this affects the hasanabirepeater bot on bluesky...

This has to be a slap suit right? Surely there's no merit to this?

Merit does not matter in the land of Corporate.

Not for me

why isn't there a c/hasanabirepeater or peertube ftm‽

Sadly, it is not.

Is he US-based?
Because, if not, does he really need to comply?

(Note: assuming 'he', because I've only ever met one bloke with the handle Zedeus and he was a he... sorry for being obtuse)

How many days until a fork fully replaces nitter?

Oh shit, that screen was not there when I last checked.

So, what's the process from now on? Do we need a community of people who have Twitter accounts and repost tweets (or better, the link sources in the case of news etc) to the Fediverse?

Rossman?

To me, I could care less. Twitter is nothing but a shell of its former self full of hate and derision now. Who needs it or any spawns.