X's lawyers shut down Nitter, the open source tool that let you browse Twitter without an account

X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter and its related service XCancel, alleging data scraping and rules violations. Nitter's maintainer, zedeus, has taken the service offline and paused development while seeking legal advice. The move highlights the tension between Musk's free speech rhetoric and his company's actions, especially as X itself uses public data to train Grok. The takedown leaves privacy-minded users with fewer options for browsing X without an account.