The New Twitter: Nitter?

Nitter is a re-skinned version of the social network that removes all the programming required to track your behavior. It is billed as a "free and open-source front-end Twitter." You can read feeds even if you don't have a Twitter account. In reality, you may search on Nitter too without creating an account or registering.

This increase coincided with the recent backlash Twitter had after discreetly changing its privacy settings to prevent users from opting out of having their online activity recorded for advertising purposes. Advertisers are willing to pay Twitter more in exchange for information about how frequently people who have seen their adverts really become customers. Twitter made the decision to compel users (apart from those in the EU) to be precise.

Companies can even tell when a consumer watches an ad on one device and then purchases the featured product on another. That's the whole point of internet advertising, and it's how companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter profit while further undermining more established forms like TV commercials that are difficult to monitor in terms of conversion rates. Thanks to JavaScript code that is integrated into Twitter's website, this kind of accurate tracking is possible.

Since you can't log in to browse your feed or send tweets, Nitter is obviously not a true Twitter substitute. However, it is cool that there is no tracking.

Because it is difficult to follow customers through third-party clients, the corporation does not let them on the web. Also, this is the reason Twitter has forbidden third-party mobile clients from providing the same functionalities as its main app: Twitter aims to entice people to stay inside its own boundaries so that it can easily keep tabs on them.

Naturally, there's always a potential that Twitter will try to block Nitter like they did with other third-party applications. This will be challenging, though, as Nitter scrapes the surface of Twitter's website, whereas applications relied on an API; anyone with the necessary knowledge may easily set up their own instance.

As a young techie, I can still recall feeling divided about marketing because it wasn't adding value. If the primary home page nitter.net is unavailable, you can access alternative instances of the service by clicking this link. There are some Darknet instances as well, so you can utilize the onion network instead of Twitter.