I meant I don’t see how the issues nitter faces at the moment are connected to this specific situation. The problems with jitter have been as a result of continued efforts to block scraping and bots after the removal of any non paid API access… which based on the AI/LLM generated instant reply guy bots that follow popular accounts and automatically post comments so predictable I’ve personally witnessed some of the OpenAI error code text just put verbatim into the tweet body.

They have basically managed to raise the floor for scraping and automated twitter use without paying a stupidly overpriced API access fee to require you run a full browser via selenium or some other similar set of tooling. Nitter isn’t going this far so it’s struggling to maintain reliable access. Guest accounts expiring is a real cliff in terms of how Nitter uses the various Twitter APIs and they stopped making new guest account tokens a little while ago and the tokens people have generated so far are all beginning to expire… which is just one prominent thing among the many things causing Nitter instances to have problems.

A lot of people have recently been using Nitter to view tweet threads when they do not have a Twitter account.