XCancel Taken Offline After X Corp Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to Nitter
XCancel users were met with an unexpected outage this week, but the problem was not a technical glitch. The service has been taken offline after X Corp sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter, the open-source project connected to XCancel.
XCancel has been known as an alternative way to view public posts from X without visiting the platform directly or logging into an X account. It relies on Nitter, an open-source front end designed to let people browse public X content with a more lightweight and privacy-focused experience.
Visitors trying to open XCancel are now seeing a notice explaining that Nitter received a cease-and-desist letter from X Corp on August 24 at 8 PM EST. According to that notice, X Corp demanded that the project stop operating XCancel. As a result, the service has been suspended while the team reviews its legal options.
The legal complaint reportedly centers on claims that Nitter improperly accessed X’s systems and data. X Corp alleges that the project used or bypassed parts of its API and accessed information in ways that violated the platform’s rules. The company also claims that data scraping, account access, and session token activity may have breached state and federal laws.
At the moment, XCancel remains unavailable, and there is no confirmed timeline for when, or if, the service will return. The team behind Nitter has not announced a relaunch date and appears to be evaluating the situation before making its next move.
The shutdown highlights the growing tension between major social media platforms and third-party tools that provide alternative ways to access public content. For users who relied on XCancel to browse X posts without signing in, the sudden takedown leaves few immediate options.
For now, anyone attempting to use XCancel will have to wait for further updates from the project as it responds to X Corp’s legal action.
