So I've been looking for a decent way to download videos from X (Twitter) without paying for Premium or dealing with sketchy ad-filled sites.
Most Twitter video downloaders out there are... not great. Pop-ups everywhere, fake download buttons, and half of them don't even work anymore since X keeps changing their API.
Then I stumbled on 트위터.net (literally "twitter.net" in Korean). And honestly? It's surprisingly good.
What it does
Free video downloads — Paste a tweet URL, pick your quality (up to 1080p), download. No account needed, no signup, no nonsense.
Trending video rankings — This is the part that surprised me. It tracks which videos are getting downloaded the most and shows a real-time leaderboard. It's basically a curated feed of what's actually going viral on Twitter right now.
Why I think it's worth mentioning
- No ads spam — The UI is clean. Like, actually clean.
- It just works — I tested it with a bunch of different tweet types (quote tweets, threads, etc.) and it handled them all.
- The ranking feature is genuinely useful — Sometimes Twitter's algorithm buries good content. This surfaces what people are actually watching.
- Saves you ₩7,500/month (~$5.50) if you were paying for X Premium just for video downloads.
From a dev perspective
I'm curious about how they handle X's increasingly restrictive API. Video URLs on Twitter use expiring tokens and HLS streaming, so extracting direct MP4 links at multiple qualities isn't trivial. The fact that it works consistently suggests they've put some real engineering into it.
The ranking system is also interesting from a data perspective — aggregating engagement metrics across millions of tweets in near-real-time to produce meaningful rankings is no small feat.
TL;DR
If you need to download Twitter videos or just want to see what's trending without algorithmic noise:
🔗 트위터.net
It's free, it's clean, and it actually works. Give it a try.
Anyone else using tools like this? Would love to hear about alternatives or similar projects.
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