This Tool Makes Twitter More Bearable to Read Leave a comment

Twitter’s sidebar, stuffed with accounts to observe and trending subjects, are gone. So are the pop-ups asking me to allow notifications, the commercials, and the view counts on all tweets. It’s like a breath of contemporary air, and it is good for tweets with out getting pulled into the Twitter rabbit gap. Even higher: It usually masses sooner than Twitter itself.

Here’s how to arrange your laptop or cellular machine to redirect any and all Twitter hyperlinks you open to Nitter as an alternative.

Install an Extension or App

You can simply change any Twitter URL to a Nitter URL by merely changing “twitter.com” with “nitter.net”—for instance: Instead of twitter.com/WIRED, you’ll sort nitter.net/wired. This, in fact, is tedious, which is why I like to recommend putting in a software that does the job for you routinely.

Nitter’s GitHub web page offers a list of extensions. For Chrome customers I like to recommend beginning with Nitter Redirect. Firefox customers can take a look at Twitter to Nitter Redirect. Android customers can set up twitter2nitter. Mac Safari customers, in addition to iPhone, and iPad customers, can set up the $2 Privacy Redirect (when you’d choose a free choice, there is a Shortcut you can configure instead, you simply want to do some work to get it working the way in which you need).

After putting in, all Twitter hyperlinks you click on ought to open in Nitter as an alternative of Twitter.

Not Working? Try a Different Instance

Nitter typically will get overwhelmed, which is able to end in error messages like “Tweet not found” for tweets you realize exist. In these situations I like to recommend switching to a unique Nitter “instance,” which is actually only a completely different server working the service. There’s a list of Nitter instances on Nitter’s GitHub web page that’s repeatedly up to date. Copy one from the nation you reside in, or only one with a URL you want, then head to your redirecting browser extension or app of selection. This ought to resolve the issue in nearly all situations.

Of course, there’s at all times an opportunity that Twitter makes an attempt to shut down Nitter the way in which they did different third-party apps. This will probably be arduous, although, as a result of as an alternative of counting on an API the way in which these apps did, Nitter simply scrapes the Twitter web site, and anybody with the related expertise can rapidly arrange their very own occasion. If it does cease working, although, we may at all times hang out on Mastodon instead.