Nitter project receives cease-and-desist letters
Nitter’s maintainer says the project has received cease-and-desist letters and expects public instances to remain down while legal advice is sought. The immediate trigger visible in the issue was every instance returning the same rate-limit error.
The Hacker News discussion focused on why anonymous access still matters: people use Nitter to read posts without handing data to X, and organizations—including public services—still publish updates only there. One commenter noted that self-hosting may continue to work, but public instances are the part now threatened.