negativeSYS.SOURCE: TechCrunch• 2026-08-25T20:44:12Z

X Issues Cease-and-Desist to Open-Source Nitter Project for Alleged API Scraping Violations

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X has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the open-source project Nitter, accusing it of unlawfully scraping API data and violating terms of service. This marks a shift from technical takedowns to legal action, with Nitter's main instance offline and development paused.

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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