Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

seebeegeebee

We need this for Linkdin too!

ChrisArchitect

Related: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

john_strinlai

it's brave to look at other companies receiving cease and desist notices and treat it as a market opening

newsomix9xl

I ignored Twitter before Musk bought it and oddly I still have no problem ignoring it. It doesn't even have good cat pictures.

benjaminclauss

It's disappointing that this is even necessary given earlier promises of opening up the Twitter algorithm.

SoKamil

It would be nice if URL schema was compatibile with X. In case of Nitter, I could’ve just replaced x.com with xcancel.com with a web extension and URL still works.

HelloUsername

Show HN some months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513823

121kahG

The site is very fast even though it should be overloaded now. Registered in Hong Kong (good), handled by Cloudflare and claims to be in California: https://github.com/peters-lab/twitter-viewer Repo is fake, only a README and a LICENSE. I guess we'll take what we can get now.

skeledrew

Prepping for another C&D I see. The only way something like this can survive is through Tor or similar, fully anonymous and decentralized.

charles_f

To this day I am still calling the website Twitter and access it every single time typing twitter.com. That rename was so dumb. So, I really love the name

Jtarii

The search is somehow faster than twitter's own search.

bigbadfeline

whackamole is the only way for now, unfortunately.

ck2

paypal should have never ever given back Musk the x domain and ICANN should have nuked it long ago but all that aside, wtf is anyone still on it Musk is a mass murderer apparently the nazis would still be in power today if they just had a web service people were too freaking lazy and addicted to ever quit and Tesla "FSD" is still trying to murder passengers a decade later but that's also definitely a choice

DivingForGold

It does not work for me like xcancel did

kemotep

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app instead of the site). Even Bluesky has this problem! Sometimes this information is really important! And I even if I did have an account I may not have access to log in on every device (or even want to). It’s absurd that social media can become this like critical communications platform for severe weather alerts or business hours or anything but the sites hosting it are completely hostile to allowing you to see it. Sites like this are a bandaid on a gangrenous foot. Thanks for allowing me to see links from twitter but it isn’t a sustainable solution clearly.

tlvbaf

Hmm, on the one hand Elon begs for new users with animated ads on the x.com front page, on the other hand one of his (likely) alt accounts claims that "Every $1 [of advertising on X] spent delivered an average return of $5.42": https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092490213121761787 I am kind of addicted to studying propaganda and reading about baseball stadiums on the moon to drive up the SpaceX stock price. For this I need the Twitter gateways.

1vuio0pswjnm7

API works great, for now https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id... Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking

daedrdev

Listen I know this comment is off topic, flag this if you want but I think it’s an important discussion Speaking of twitter, are there any posts here about the ycombinator discourse? Given a high level member of ycombinator blocked the chairman of the FTC after an argument over immigration, I foresee issues in the future.

xacky

You've been told for years not to use X, (twitter is now clearly the pre Musk era), but Elon knows you crave his dopamine so he can keep imposing harsher conditions.

celsoazevedo

Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view. We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to read what's said there. Same with Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Linkdin, etc.