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XCancel service suspended until further notice
The gist
XCancel suspended its service again on Sep 14, 2026, citing new legal proceedings.
The shutdown affects users viewing X content without an account.
How it unfolded
- late August 2026XCancel and Nitter were shut down following cease-and-desist orders from X Corp.
- Sep 6, 2026Nitter lead developer Zedeus unarchived the official GitHub repository, making the source code available again for public instances such as XCancel.
- Sep 8, 2026XCancel became operational again; the main nitter.net instance had not yet fully resumed service. Daring Fireball reported the resumption following legal progress announced in the Nitter GitHub project.