Nitter is a lightweight, trackerless frontend for Twitter that does not need Javascript to work. To use it, simply substitute twitter.com
with any instance's address in the URL bar, or browse straight to the instance and look for any user or tag.
Nitter presents quite a diverse ecosystem of instances (including hidden services) and is also incredibly configurable from the frontend. I guess the only downside I can point out is that you can't write anything to it (like any other frontend here).
Many programs can use the Twitter API to fetch and post content from your desktop or even the command-line. I've used in the past identicurse, though it seems to be largely abandoned.