This Tool Makes Twitter More Bearable to Read

Twitter’s sidebar, full of accounts to observe and trending subjects, are gone. So are the pop-ups asking me to allow notifications, the ads, and the view counts on all tweets. It’s like a breath of contemporary air, and it is excellent for taking a look at tweets with out getting pulled into the Twitter rabbit gap. Even higher: It typically 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’d sort nitter.web/wired. This, after all, is tedious, which is why I like to recommend putting in a instrument that does the job for you robotically.

Nitter’s GitHub web page provides a listing of extensions. For Chrome customers I like to recommend beginning with Nitter Redirect. Firefox customers can try 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 (in case you’d desire a free possibility, there is a Shortcut you possibly can configure as an alternative, 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 can lead to error messages like “Tweet not found” for tweets you understand exist. In these situations I like to recommend switching to a special Nitter “instance,” which is basically only a completely different server operating the service. There’s a record of Nitter situations on Nitter’s GitHub web page that’s often 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 clear up 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 onerous, 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 around on Mastodon as an alternative.