As far as I heard, they were sent Cease and Desist letters.
Though one post claimed they were sent a c&d by a SpaceX employee, another claimed X Corp.
Some alts seem to be alive though, such as 'goy...
The nitter dot net dev shared the letter with techcrunch:
“unlawful use and circumvention of X’s Application Programming Interface (API) and associated data,”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/
“unlawful use and circumvention of X’s Application Programming Interface (API) and associated data,”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/
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