# Twitter won
Ever since I quit Twitter, I've been using Nitter for viewing tweets of various kinds. My experience was good, I could see tweets, but not interact with them - perfect for my use case. There were some nitpicks, like being unable to search for particular users or tweets, but that didn't bother me.
Everything was perfect, up until the manchild came into power. Not too long after acquisition, 3rd party tools such as Tweetbot started shutting down due to indie-bankrupting changes, that's when I started to worry about the future of Nitter. But everything was pretty much smooth sailing, I didn't think about it too much. Until the manchild changed something again.
To combat the "inevitable invasion of bot accounts", he started to impose extremely restricting rate limits on accounts, on which Nitter practically relied on. Thankfully the contributors figured out a not-so-perfect-but-working solution, using guest accounts instead to cycle between to avoid rate limits. Again, it wasn't perfect, and Nitter slowed down a little (and nsfw posts wouldn't show up), but it continued to work fine for my use cases.
Up until nitter.net's certificate expired. At the time I thought "not a big deal, maybe maintainer is on vacation or something", and I moved to another instance. I was having numerous problems like "instance is rate-limited", forcing me to migrate to another instance, and another, and another. Then I looked at the Github page. "nitter is dead" was what I was greeted with. Due to yet another series of changes, guest accounts were removed, killing Nitter's ability to be privacy-friendly, leaving no choice for maintainer other than to shut down or substitute guest accounts with their (or burners) accounts. I was gutted.
To reiterate, my use case for Nitter was to view tweets and nothing else. Sometimes people would post important threads, and lack of Nitter removed that ability. Viewing from native Twitter, not logged in, isn't a perfect solution either - only the first tweet is shown and the rest is removed.
I had to remove every Twitter link from my hosts, and create an account, for the first time in a year. I followed people I want to see art from and that's it. I want to stay true to my Twitter purposes. I enjoy writing long(ish) blogposts more than short, no thought tweets one or two people might find funny. For that reason, I'm not adding Twitter to my social media list.