The distinction is scraping public pages vs. circumventing access controls.
Nitter is accused of: using an unofficial API, routes traffic through nitter servers, requires operators to supply real X accounts, uses session tokens, circumvents X’s API restrictions/rate limits, and then publishes the resulting material.
Bright Data: “You made public information available, and someone scraped it.”
Nitter: “You deliberately circumvented technical restrictions and used authenticated X accounts/tokens to obtain information that X was actively trying to restrict.”
Still not a slam dunk for X, but keep in mind that their actual goal is to shut down nitter by increasing nitter’s legals costs.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 2.9 ms ] threadNitter is accused of: using an unofficial API, routes traffic through nitter servers, requires operators to supply real X accounts, uses session tokens, circumvents X’s API restrictions/rate limits, and then publishes the resulting material.
Bright Data: “You made public information available, and someone scraped it.”
Nitter: “You deliberately circumvented technical restrictions and used authenticated X accounts/tokens to obtain information that X was actively trying to restrict.”
Still not a slam dunk for X, but keep in mind that their actual goal is to shut down nitter by increasing nitter’s legals costs.