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Browser extension which gives you more control over your Twitter timeline and adds missing features and UI improvements - available for desktop and mobile browsers
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- Added an option to hide the Live bar in the mobile timeline when someone you follow is broadcasting - Added an option to hide the Live with X box in the desktop sidebar - Added an option to hide the What's happening box in the desktop sidebar - Added an option to hide Who to follow and other suggested follow boxes in the desktop sidebar - Moved these to a new Sidebar options group, as they don't all belong in the Remove algorithmic content group - Added changing "Live on X" to "Live on Twitter" when Replace X branding changes is enabled - Added hiding promoted trends - Added hiding Install button cards in some Grok tweets - Added hiding Ask Grok button in Tweets - Added hiding a new premium upsell in the desktop sidebar - Fixed a link headline restoration false positive on Install button cards in Grok tweets - Fixed hiding the ad in What's happening when not hiding sidebar contents - Fixed Japanese translation wording and sentence endings - Increased timeout waiting for the "you aren't verified yet" premium upsell to appear in your own profile - Removed the Hide Pro nav option, as it's no longer applicable |
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Control Panel for Twitter
Control Panel for Twitter is a browser extension which gives you more control over Twitter and adds missing features and UI improvements
Install
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Safari Extension - for iPhone, iPad and Mac
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Firefox Extension - can also be installed in the Android version of Firefox
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Chrome Extension - can also be installed in Edge, Opera, and Brave on desktop, and Kiwi Browser on Android
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User script version - requires a user script manager
Releases / What's New?
The Control Panel for Twitter Releases page highlights new features, changes and fixes in each version, and shows which version is currently published on each of the browser extension stores.
New versions can take anything from minutes to days to be approved for publishing after they're submitted to a browser extension store.
Features
Home timeline
- Defaults to the "Following" (chronological) timeline, automatically switching you back if Twitter tries to move you to the "For you" (algorithmic) timeline
- Hide the "For you" timeline tab (default setting)
- Move Retweets to a separate tab (default setting), or hide them entirely
- Move Quote Tweets and replies to them to a separate tab in the Home timeline, or hide them entirely
- Hide Retweets in pinned Lists
- Enable muting of Quote Tweets
- Hide the floating "See new Tweets" button
- Hide "Who to follow", "Follow some Topics" etc. in the Home timeline and elsewhere
- Hide inline prompts in the timeline
- Full-width timeline: hide the sidebar and let timeline content go full-width on Home, Lists and Communities
UI improvements
- Add "Add muted word" to the "More" menu (desktop) or slide-out menu (mobile)
- Fast blocking - skips the confirm dialog when you try to block an account
- Hide quotes of and replies to blocked and muted accounts
- Hide Retweets in user profiles
- Default to "Latest" tab in Search
- When viewing a tweet's Quote Tweets, hide the quoted tweet to make more room for quotes
X fixes
- Replace X branding changes
- Hide Views under tweets
- Hide the "Verified" tab in Notifications and the "Verified Followers" tab in Followers/Following
- Restore headlines under external links
- Restore the Quote Tweets link under tweets, and other interaction links
- Default sorting replies to most recent or most liked
- Replace Premium blue checks with the Twitter Blue logo, or hide them altogether
- Hide Premium blue check replies in threads
- Hide Premium upsells throughout the app
- Hide Grok
- Hide Jobs
- Hide Subscriptions
UI tweaks
- Disable use of the Chirp font if you don't like it
- Disable bold and italic text in tweets
- Use the site's normal text font style in the primary navigation menu on desktop to make it less distracting
- Change the navigation menu density on desktop to make it take less room
- Use normal font weight in dropdown menus - if everything's bold, nothing's bold
- Uninvert the Follow and Following buttons to make them less jarring
- Choice of monochrome or themed (classic) styling for uninverted buttons
Remove algorithmic content
- Hide sidebar contents
- Hide Explore page contents and use it only for searching
- Hide "Discover more" algorithmic tweets when viewing a tweet
Reduce "engagement"
- Hide metrics
- Reduced interaction mode: hide the action bar under tweets – replies are now the only means of interacting
- Disable the home timeline: find yourself wasting too much time on Twitter? Try preventing use of the home timeline, going to Notifications or Messages by default instead
Hide UI items you don't use
- Bookmark button under tweets
- Share button under tweets
- Analytics links under your own tweets
- Hide navigation items you don't use on desktop, and other distracting screen elements such as the Messages drawer
- Hide the bottom nav item for Messages on mobile if you don't use it often
- Hide items you don't use in the "More" menu (desktop) or slide-out menu (mobile)
Screenshots
Home timeline with most tweaks enabled
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Separate timeline for Retweets (default setting) and/or Quote Tweets
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Full-width timeline
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Tidied-up menu, with instant access to "Add muted word"
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Hide metrics
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Uninverted Follow buttons
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Disable use of Chirp font
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Improved Quote Tweets page
The quoted tweet is hidden, instead of being duplicated under every quote, leaving more room for quotes
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Reduced interaction mode
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Disable the home timeline
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Configurable via options popup and the extension options page
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No trends on Explore screen, just search
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Language support
As of v2.2, all 48 of the display languages available on Twitter are supported, some examples:
| Gaeilge (Irish) | 日本語 (Japanese) | العربية (Arabic) |
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Options are also available in the following languages:
- French (translation by @THEDARKK, @Alerymin, @luclu7)
- Italian (translation by @katullo11)
- Japanese (translation by @MitoKurato)
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese (translation by @CodeQiu)
- Spanish (translation by @rogama25)
User script support
Control Panel for Twitter is also available as a user script – to change the default options, you'll need to edit the config object at the top of the script.
Attribution
Icon adapted from "Ibis icon" by Delapouite from game-icons.net, CC 3.0 BY