Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist
Summary
Nitter is a privacy-focused front-end for Twitter that faced legal pressure from X Corp. Cease-and-desist letters were issued on 24 August 2026, and the repository was archived and set to read-only by 26 August 2026. The article discusses the implications for open-source projects under platform takedown pressure and notes the broader privacy-OSS tensions.