# Android: Native twitter support

**URL:** <https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531>\
**Category:** problem\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531 "2020-12-17T19:38:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/439d5e/32.png) [@hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/hsyntrd)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/1 "2020-12-17T19:38:43Z")

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I cant add twitter user links via add button. Does application lacks native twitter support?

app version: 10.2.0  
android version: 10 (QP1A.190711.020.M315FXXU2ATIB)  
device: samsung SM-M315F (exynos9611)  
sqlite version: 3.22.0  
username: hsyntrd  
server: default  
speed: 281 feeds in conn:1672 read:29 parse:345 store:61  
pending actions: pre:0 post:0  
premium: yes  
prefetch: yes  
notifications: no  
keepread: no  
thumbs: yes

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**Author:** ![samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/samuelclay/32/857_2.png) [@samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/samuelclay)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/2 "2020-12-17T19:44:31Z")

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That’s all handled on the backend. Are you able to add it on the web but not on Android? Try adding it on the web and let me know if that doesn’t work. Also, what’s the URL you’re adding?

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**Author:** ![hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/439d5e/32.png) [@hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/hsyntrd)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/3 "2020-12-18T16:01:20Z")

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I tried it on web. I got the an error about twitter connection. I understand now that I need to connect my twitter account to newsblur. Android app did not warn me about connection it just gave “Could not add feed” error.

URL I’m adding is “[https://twitter.com/username](https://twitter.com/username)”

Can I add twitter users without connecting my twitter account to my newsblur account? I don’t use twitter so I dont have an account to connect to

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**Author:** ![vklj](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/vklj/32/479_2.png) [@vklj](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/vklj)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/4 "2020-12-22T14:30:13Z")

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An alternative is to add “[https://nitter.net/username](https://nitter.net/username)”.  
Nitter is an unofficial twitter frontend which provides RSS feeds for all Twitter accounts.

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**Author:** ![samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/samuelclay/32/857_2.png) [@samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/samuelclay)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/5 "2020-12-22T14:45:33Z")

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Nitter is a good idea but if you want to read Twitter accounts you’ll need to connect a Twitter account. You can just make a one-off twitter account for this purpose.

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**Author:** ![vklj](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/vklj/32/479_2.png) [@vklj](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/vklj)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/6 "2020-12-26T16:14:57Z")

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> [@samuelclay](#):
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> […] if you want to read Twitter accounts you’ll need to connect a Twitter account.

What do you mean? The advantage of Nitter is precisely being able to read Twitter accounts without needing a Twitter account or otherwise having to request the content from Twitter’s servers.

Nitter scrapes publicly available content directly from Twitter. Nitter is not an alternative social network like Mastodon.

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**Author:** ![hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/439d5e/32.png) [@hsyntrd](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/hsyntrd)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/android-native-twitter-support/8531/7 "2020-12-27T06:28:25Z")

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I’m currently using Nitter, thanks for help.