Twitter’s sidebar, crammed with accounts to comply with and trending matters, are gone. So are the pop-ups asking me to allow notifications, the commercials, and the view counts on all tweets. It’s like a breath of recent 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 quicker than Twitter itself.

Here’s how you can arrange your laptop or cell system 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 kind nitter.net/wired. This, after all, is tedious, which is why I like to recommend putting in a device that does the job for you mechanically.

Nitter’s GitHub web page offers a list of extensions. For Chrome customers I like to recommend beginning with Nitter Redirect. Firefox customers can take a look at 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 (should you’d choose a free choice, there is a Shortcut you can configure instead, you simply must 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 is able to lead to error messages like “Tweet not found” for tweets you recognize exist. In these cases I like to recommend switching to a distinct Nitter “instance,” which is basically only a completely different server working the service. There’s a list of Nitter instances on Nitter’s GitHub web page that’s usually 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 alternative. This ought to resolve the issue in nearly all cases.

Of course, there’s at all times an opportunity that Twitter makes an attempt to close down Nitter the way in which they did different third-party apps. This shall 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 shortly arrange their very own occasion. If it does cease working, although, we might at all times hang out on Mastodon instead.