I avoid Twitter at any cost but sometimes I’d like to read a single tweet or check a certain account. In the past I used fritter on Android or nitter.net in the browser.

Both do not work for me anymore.

Is there a good way to access twitter without - you know - actually using twitter?

  • Meow.tar.gz
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    611 year ago

    Unfortunately, no. Since the bird site started charging exorbitant amounts for access to its API, many of the smaller apps that used to work with it don’t work anymore. You’re honestly best staying off of twitter altogether. Don’t give the Musk anything to monetize you.

  • Baba_au_rhum
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    231 year ago

    Don’t worry, the way things are going right now Twitter will be dead before long

    • Hyperreality
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      111 year ago

      I really hope so, but I’m not optimistic.

      I don’t have a facebook account either, but a large amount of business only have facebook pages and not their own webpage, which are now all hidden behind a login wall.

      It’s annoying when it’s a tyre shop. But all too often twitter was/is the best way to contact government agencies and get a fast response. Eg. I had a tax issue, my country’s tax agency has an account on twitter, you tweet them your problem, they reply.

  • @warling
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    131 year ago

    Try https://bird.makeup/

    It (somehow) acts as a bridge between Twitter and ActuvityPub. No idea how it works, but it does seem to work.

    • @wmrchOP
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      21 year ago

      Hm, it throws an error for me when looking for a specific twitter handle.

      • @warling
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        11 year ago

        I’m currently getting that too. Hopefully it’s a temporary glitch.

    • @joey_needs_sleep
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      21 year ago

      It depends on what instance you are trying to access it from. I tried to use it with my account on mastodon.social but they seem to have blocked it (you can check on the about page for your instance)

      mstdn.social hasn’t blocked it though.

      I find it strange because these instances don’t say anything about bots like this being against the rules.

      • @warling
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        11 year ago

        I wasn’t aware of that. Good to know!

  • 001100 010010
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    1 year ago

    I use archive.is and if that doesn’t work in the future, then you can always make a random account with a temp email and dispose of the account after you’re done.

    • @WhoRoger
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      31 year ago

      And a temp phone number?

        • @WhoRoger
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          11 year ago

          They’ve been for ages.

          • 001100 010010
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            11 year ago

            Well I signed up without a phone number, although they keep making me do a 15 captcha thing, so I just gave up after they failed me once.

  • @zephyr
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    41 year ago

    With current rate limits, I doubt there will be a practical solution.

  • Mozami
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    1 year ago

    I primarily use sotwe.com. Nitter used to be my go-to but it had some issues with displaying age-restricted tweets.

    • @jantin
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      31 year ago

      How? I had to use nitter to get rss feeds of accounts and this is now obviously dead.