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Nitter joins the registry

2026-09-19 · 2026.6.30:1

Privacy-respecting front-end for X (Twitter)

# about

$ man nitter

Nitter is a lightweight, JavaScript-free front-end for X (Twitter). Browse profiles, tweets, and searches without ads or tracking, and subscribe to accounts via RSS. Requires session cookies from a real X account to fetch data.

upstream → package → AGPL-3.0

# install

$ install nitter

startos
  1. In StartOS, open System → Registries, click Add registry and enter https://startos.stupleb.xyz.
  2. StartOS trusts the signing key the registry offers for installing packages.
  3. Pick StuPleb Registry in the Marketplace's registry selector and look for Nitter.

# releases

$ git log --oneline nitter

  • 2026.8.24:32026-11-10Initial release. Nitter needs session cookies from an X account before it can start; Add X Account Session takes them, and Manage Access makes Nitter private, behind a username and password, or public.
  • 2026.8.24:22026-10-22Stops trusting certificates from a compromised certificate authority (eMudhra).
  • 2026.8.24:12026-10-10When the address set as the primary URL moves to another port or between HTTP and HTTPS, RSS and other links follow it automatically.
  • 2026.8.24:02026-10-10Nitter is updated to upstream's 2026-08-24 build (8142bab), with its fixes for X's current site plus reply sorting, more search tabs, tweet embeds and an Articles tab.
  • 2026.6.30:22026-10-04The Basic Auth prompt stays dismissed once you've made a choice. The Primary URL prompt clears itself when the address is available again.
  • 2026.6.30:12026-09-19Rebuilt on StartOS SDK 2.0.5. No changes to functionality.