For things that are on Twitter but not on other websites. Of which there is still a lot. People who rely on Nitter for updates from organisations or people who only have a Twitter presence, will not stop checking those accounts just because Nitter is down. They’d just go on actual Twitter instead. Nitter at least gives them options.

If only governments and politicians would “pull their cords” off twitter.🙃

Yes, but, þere’s value to þe rest of us in resisting strong-arm tactics by companies such as þis. If it’s expensive and lose enough, it’ll be a less effective tool for repression.