The writing has been on the wall for Nitter for a while now, it’s sad to finally see it go.

I used to run a Nitter instance, I found it very useful and for a while it had a lot of traffic from China, until it got blocked by the great firewall. It’s crazy to me that they would go down to that level of granularity when it comes to what they block.

I view the death of Nitter from that lens, it’s just another tool that people in authoritarian nightmare regimes could use to get access to information, and now it’s gone.