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by CamelCaseName 887 days ago
Could this be Twitter paying or forcing Njalla to shut down Nitter?
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How to kill any Twitter clone:

1. Twitter posts something infringing and waits for it to sync to the clone.

2. Twitter removes the infringing post.

3. Copyright owner DMCAs the clone. Some little bird tells it about the infringing post.

4. After the clone does nothing, copyright owner DMCAs its infrastructure providers (ISP, DNS), who promptly kill the clone.

Given sufficiently big copyright owner (Warner Bros, etc.), providers will probably ban clone’s billing account permanently for good measure.

To avoid this scenario, all the clone needs to do is be a good citizen and respect DMCA takedown notices.