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Nextgrid on Oct 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: RSS is wonderful

The point of Nitter is that it uses the API their official web client (which is a JS SPA) is using. They can't lock out Nitter without also locking their own frontend out.

chriswarbo on Oct 24, 2021 [–]

Twitter can alter that API at any point, since they can update their front-end at the same time.

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