Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist
Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was.
The notice sits on nitter.net, struck through the old cease-and-desist banner. “Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue,” it reads. “This instance and others will be back up and running shortly.” The maintainer works under the handle zedeus. He promised a fuller announcement within a week.
Richard Speed reported the reversal for The Register. The publication asked X for comment and had received no response.
What TNW could confirm
Some of this is already visible rather than promised. XCancel, the best-known public instance built on Nitter’s code, was serving pages again on Monday. TNW loaded it on Tuesday and it was still up.
The GitHub repository has also come back. Archiving...
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