X Issues Cease-and-Desist to Nitter Open-Source Project Over Web Scraping

Social media platform X has escalated its crackdown on third-party access by issuing formal cease-and-desist notices to the developers of Nitter.

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The legal notices demand the immediate deletion of Nitter GitHub repositories and public server instances, claiming the open-source software facilitates illegal data scraping and bypasses user tracking mechanisms.

The enforcement action highlights growing legal friction between major platform operators and open-source privacy developers seeking independent web access.