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Nitter

Alternative front-end for Twitter that respects your privacy

Social Networks Archived ★ 14.5k stars Easy setup AGPL-3.0-only

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained social networks alternative.

Alternative front-end for Twitter that respects your privacy.

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Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0-only license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Mature project with 14.5k GitHub stars
  • Written in Nim

Is Nitter secure?

OSV.dev lists 1 published advisory for Nitter. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-56285, published 2026-06-29 (107 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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