Notes 
Android: Fritter, a privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for Android devices.
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter. List of Instances.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Nitter
nitter.net 3.6 (5)
Rate Nitter: No account needed
Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Pick this if you need to read a Twitter/X account or thread without an account or the tracking, and don’t mind that it is a constant cat-and-mouse with the platform. Public instances get throttled and shut down regularly, so reliability is genuinely poor and a working instance is half the battle. It still beats logging in, but go in expecting to hunt for a live mirror rather than trusting one.
GitHub at a glance
zedeus/nitter AGPL-3.0 nimprivacyself-hostedtwitterx
Stars
14,463
-3 this week
Forks
1,385
181 watching
Last commit
25d ago
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Star history
Issues
88% closed
132
open
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closed
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opened / closed, last 4 weeks
Opened vs closed, last 12 weeks
Commits, last 26 weeks
95 commits, active 14 of 26 weeks
54 contributors since Jun 2019
Languages
- Nim 59.9%
- Python 23.4%
- SCSS 11.9%
- Other 4.8%
Updated daily from the GitHub API. Star tracking since Jun 15, 2026.
Website at a glance
nitter.net
A+ score 110
Strong website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 11d ago
Inspect this site yourself
Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
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Nitter license, in plain English
AGPL-3.0 Strong copyleft · network
Free to use, even commercially. Changes must be published under the same license, and running a modified version as a network service counts as distributing it.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Network use is distribution
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: The network clause is the point. Anyone who runs a modified version as a hosted service has to publish those changes, so the code handling your data stays inspectable. This is why privacy-first projects reach for AGPL.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.