Squawker, how to use X (Twitter) without being registered

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We have already addressed the topic in the past Twitter, time X, how view it with greater privacy and above all prefer them Mastodon and in general everything fediverse (And Feddit, Obviously!). Some of the methods for viewing tweets without being logged in no longer work very well mainly because since Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk many changes have been made that have broken their functioning ¹. One of the most complex things for the developers of these alternative methods is managing to keep up with the continuous changes in the use of X.

Generally when we talk about greater privacy on social media we mean use alternative applications to view the contents of the social network in question. However it must always be clear which alternative is chosen is used by logged in users the differences are often very few and limit themselves to avoiding the use of the official application. In the case of X, for example, logging in via the application could also be considered Twitter Lite: official, few permissions and very light. Among other things, it is perhaps the last official place where the Twitter name and the bird in the logo remain. Probably no one has the courage to tell Elon Musk about it and leave things as they are 😁

Alternative applications or webapps?

It must be said that it is now almost impossible to be able to use mainstream social networks with secondary applications as a few years ago: Meta has essentially cut out both the project Bibliogram what applications alternatives to use Facebook. Reddit has killed free APIs effectively killing many free applications and X as we know did more or less the same.

However, at times the applications have perhaps been a little overrated: often for daily use it might be enough to use a webapp, i.e. open the website on a Browsers dedicated. Again to try to be clearer: if you want to use X log in to your account probably the most practical thing is to install one of many excellent ones Browsers Alternative Androids. Log in to X, add the shortcut on the home screen (this depends on Browsers, but often by going to the menu you will find Install) and you're good to go. For more privacy that Browsers you can only use it for X, so don't do it with yours Browsers principal.

Squawker, how to use X (Twitter) without being registered

What we propose in this article is therefore not an application to use X when logged in or therefore to reply or anything else. It is an application that will allow you to follow X profiles and read discussions in a similar style to X but without any type of registration.

The story of Squawker is, as you can imagine, a bit troubled. It all comes from Fritters but it no longer works. At Fritter's there was a Fork called Quacker which however was abandoned and canceled by the owner ². However, someone made another one Fork, called Squawker and still working today.

We want to say it: it works now and in this moment. With constant changes made to X it may stop working or it may generally work worse than you hope. However we tried it for a few days and it really felt like we had an X feed.

What Squawker is and how it works

But we dwelt a bit, let's get back to us and to Squawker.

Because it's so interesting Squawker? Because if you don't need to log in to your account it's probably the best way ever to follow what's happening on X.

Not giving out your details and not signing up to X is probably a very good idea especially now that it is in the hands of a dangerous person ^{3 4}. Even we, who have always tried to stay on mainstream social media to spread the word, have distanced ourselves from X because on an emotional and ethical level it was too difficult to sustain ⁵.

Thanks to Squawker in fact you will have a classic homepage (a feeds) which you can fill with all the accounts you want to follow, without limits. You can also create different feeds by grouping together categories or whatever you prefer. You can also save your favorite tweets to then find them all easily.

If you already have an X profile with many people you follow, you can also import them directly.

All these functions, as mentioned, work but are a little dancers precisely because they are strongly limited by X.

Use X without logging in

In short, it's really like using X but without being tracked because you will do it without your own account and therefore without telling X who you are.

Squawker It is therefore useful, especially if you intend to use X in read-only mode, to follow interesting profiles without the possibility of interaction.

Naturally Squawker it's completely Open source ⁶ and free from tracers, also in the version present on Play Store ⁷.

As always, we leave you below all the references to download it.

We would also like to say that we are trying to select different ways to also be able to read other social networks and/or mainstream sites that require registration to read. Therefore, if you have any project to submit to us, we will certainly give it a look so that we can create a summary article.

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1. Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk's latest monetization push[↩]
2. Yes it was deleted today by the owner[↩]
3. Thus Elon Musk turned into a right-wing extremist[↩]
4. Did Elon Musk use a neo-Nazi meme?[↩]
5. Le_Alternatives on X[↩]
6. source code on GitHub[↩]
7. Exodus Report[↩]

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