Fixed Twitter(X) #2335
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Fixed Twitter(X) #2335
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Fixes #2317
The Sherlock Project has always relied on
nitterfor checking the availability of an username as it's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled & hence, can't be scraped easily.Unfortunately nitter.net is down, which was being utilized for a long time & most of the alternate instances are behind a captcha or a browser integrity check page. Hence, I looked for an instance which can be accessed directly & updated the
urlProbe.List of instances can be found here - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public