The public Nitter website is offline after X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Nitter instances and the project's software repository be permanently taken down, according to a notice posted at nitter.net. The operator is now seeking funding and legal assistance to determine whether the privacy-oriented interface or a successor can continue.
The site's notice says X Corp sent an initial letter on August 24, 2026, followed by another on September 8 containing the same takedown demands and legal threats. Those claims are the operator's account of the correspondence; the supplied evidence does not include the letters themselves or a response from X Corp.
Nitter has functioned as an alternative way to view material from X. The latest notice does not offer a timetable for restoring the service. Instead, it states plainly that nitter.net is offline and says further developments will be posted on the same page.
The operator also withdrew a key assurance made in an earlier update. A September 7 statement had said the project would continue with legal representation in place. The new notice says that position relied on assurances the operator believed at the time but which later proved untrue. The operator apologized for having published misleading information.
That correction changes the project's immediate position. Rather than describing a legal defense as secured, the operator is asking lawyers, organizations and other potential supporters to make contact. Donations will be directed first to legal costs if they are required, the notice says. Any money not needed for that purpose would support continued work on Nitter or a successor project.
The dispute places both the running public instances and the underlying repository in question. A demand aimed only at a particular website could leave the software available elsewhere; the operator's account says X Corp is demanding removal of both. The supplied notice does not explain which legal claims X Corp asserted, whether a court action has been filed or what defenses might be available. It would therefore be premature to predict the project's legal prospects.
The site also does not say that donations will guarantee a return. Its language frames funding and legal help as resources needed to fight for Nitter's future, while leaving open the possibility of work on a successor. Users should treat the offline notice as the current operational status, not as an announced relaunch plan.
For now, the only firm public update in the supplied evidence is that the principal site is unavailable, earlier confidence about representation has been retracted, and the operator is trying to assemble support. Any assessment of the competing legal positions will require the actual correspondence or public statements from both sides.
