I avoid Twitter at any cost but sometimes I’d like to read a single tweet or check a certain account. In the past I used fritter on Android or nitter.net in the browser.
Both do not work for me anymore.
Is there a good way to access twitter without - you know - actually using twitter?
It (somehow) acts as a bridge between Twitter and ActuvityPub. No idea how it works, but it does seem to work.
It depends on what instance you are trying to access it from. I tried to use it with my account on mastodon.social but they seem to have blocked it (you can check on the about page for your instance)
mstdn.social hasn’t blocked it though.
I find it strange because these instances don’t say anything about bots like this being against the rules.
I wasn’t aware of that. Good to know!
Hm, it throws an error for me when looking for a specific twitter handle.
I’m currently getting that too. Hopefully it’s a temporary glitch.
With current rate limits, I doubt there will be a practical solution.
I use archive.is and if that doesn’t work in the future, then you can always make a random account with a temp email and dispose of the account after you’re done.
And a temp phone number?
Wait they require a phone number now?
They’ve been for ages.
Well I signed up without a phone number, although they keep making me do a 15 captcha thing, so I just gave up after they failed me once.
Maybe Elon didn’t pay the phone verification service so they turned it off.
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