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by zedeus 2258 days ago
Inspired by Twint I created an alternative web client that relies almost entirely on web scraping. The parser is more complete than Twint's due to the different goals, supporting things like polls and videos properly. It's still work in progress but very usable with features like RSS and convenient profile search. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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I don't use twitter android application and the browser version on mobile is extremely slow. This made twitter usable on my browser again. Thanks! PS: It would be even more useful if someone hosts it in a domain like <someshortcode>twitter.com, then I can just add shortcode to the url and escape from the slow, official one.
Use a PWA instead. Go to Twitter on Chrome and do "Add to Home Screen". Really fast.
Thank you! I love it! It's so much better than the official front-end and works fine without JS.