nitter

Alternative Twitter front-end

⭐ 14,050 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,232 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Nim

What is nitter?

Browsing X (formerly Twitter) without handing over your IP address, browser fingerprint, or enduring a bloated JavaScript payload requires a dedicated proxy layer. By acting as a middleman between your browser and X's unofficial API

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ nim
• 🏷️ privacy
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ twitter
• 🏷️ x

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/zedeus/nitter.git
cd nitter
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: zedeus/nitter
• 🌐 Homepage: https://nitter.net
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 29/08/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.