Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

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Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services
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It amazes me how much effort people will go to in order to experience the shitshow that TwitXter is.

Just avoid entirely.

The sooner it dies the better society will be

it is not as easy as it sounds because public services and figures send their news/notifications through X

Weird, I've survived without it for 8 years.

Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

Ours does the exact same. Sometimes they even put an obfuscated link to a tweet that was very quickly deleted, so you just get an error and there's no info unless you both log in and go searching their twitter for whatever tweet they may actually still have that has info. It's pretty ridiculous.

Sounds like a misuse of the amber alert system

They only do that because there is an audience there.

If we demand they use better methods of notifying the ublic, that draw for viewers/readers won't be there either.