Comment by ButlerianJihad

Completely different users! It's using authorized accounts of people who agreed to the Terms of Use. Not just those, but the Developer Terms apply to the API.

https://docs.x.com/developer-terms/agreement

But the "users" who are viewing Nitter content are not those same authorized users. They are unauthorized users. They are not authenticated by X. They are unknown, anonymous, and untraceable to X. That is unacceptable for any service--especially a service that's restricted to authorized users. Especially a service that puts forth Terms of Use that apply to the actual user using the service.

It is patently absurd for someone to say that, since there are "public endpoints" hanging out there, that X has no right or authority to govern how they're used, and who uses them. Of course they do.

When I access X with Chrome, I sign in... I'm the same user authenticated and authorized by them, and Chrome is my interface. It's not a proxy, a scraper, or an API gateway. It's my client and X knows exactly who I am. I agreed to use X properly, and conduct myself properly on their platform. Nitter did none of this.