This is the best summary I could come up with:

An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk’s changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account.

“Most Nitter servers were using a technique of generating loads of temporary tokens that were used for accessing the content, but that path is now blocked as well,” the NoLog update today said.

“I conclude that it is possible to easily acquire thousands of guest accounts within just a few minutes by using proxies, and they are all usable from a single IP address without getting rate limited,” the August 2023 post said.

I will also develop a service that fetches these continuously, and lets operators request guest accounts for their own instances without having to pay for proxies."

Pointing to a recent discussion on GitHub, today’s update from NoLog said there may be “a way to spin up a personal Nitter instance with your own account to keep the interface you are used to, but there is no guarantee this will work long-term.”

“Unfortunately regular accounts can only support a small group of users, so running a public instance this way is not feasible,” the update said.

The original article contains 729 words, the summary contains 205 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

I was using Nitter to connect with local groups in my municipality who insist on using social media as their platform to inform the community of events, public notices, and development updates.

So this sucks. Even our local police communicates through Twitter.

Still, I refuse to sign up to it (again). Musk can eat a bag of dicks for all I care.

Honestly it’s for the best. It’s not worth using any resources on that platform. This just makes it even less relevant for people who are not signed up. Musk is building a wall around people nobody wants to interact with anyway.

Musk is now actively developing Shitter

With further future plans to create the follow up program called Shittier

@[email protected] and anyone else:

If you want to follow Twitter accounts from Mastodon, there’s a bridge called Bird.Makeup that still works and is building a workaround to this issue.

I’m working on a Mastodon client called Agora that integrates this bridge into the search, so that if you search for “[email protected]” it automatically loads the bridged Mastodon version of the profile:

https://agorasocial.app/#/andrew.masto.host/a/111844567849084915