Control Panel for Twitter 4+

Take control of your timeline

Jonathan Buchanan

    • £4.99

Description

Control Panel for Twitter is a Safari extension to improve your experience on Twitter.com by adding new features and options Twitter is missing.

By default, your Home timeline will be the chronological "Following" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow. The algorithmic "For you" timeline will be hidden, and Control Panel for Twitter will keep you on "Following" if Twitter tries to put you back on "For you". Everything is configurable, so start by opening the extension options and customizing to your liking.

Features:

Home timeline

• Defaults to the "Following" (chronological) timeline, and keeps you on it if Twitter automatically switches to the "For you" timeline
• Hide the "For you" timeline tab (default)
• Move Retweets to a separate tab (default), 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
• Hide tweets quoting accounts you've blocked or muted
• Mute quoting of specific tweets - adds a "Mute this conversation" menu item to Quote Tweets in the Home and List timelines
• Hide the "Home" heading
• Hide the floating "See new Tweets" button
• Hide "Who to follow", "Follow some Topics" etc. in the Home timeline and elsewhere
• Full-width timeline: hide the sidebar and let timeline content go full-width on Home, Lists and Communities

UI improvements

• Replace X branding changes
• Hide Views under tweets
• Hide the "Verified" tab on the Notifications page
• Replace Twitter Blue checkmarks with the Blue logo so they're not as easily mistaken for verified accounts, or hide them altogether
• Hide Twitter Blue replies in threads
• Hide Twitter Blue upsells
• Hide Grok
• Hide Subscriptions
• Add "Add muted word" to the "More" menu
• Fast blocking - skips the confirm dialog when you try to block an account
• 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

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 to make it less distracting
• Change the navigation menu density 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

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

Remove algorithmic content

• Hide "What's happening", "Topics to follow" etc. in the sidebar
• Hide Explore page contents and use it only for searching
• Hide "Discover more" algorithmic tweets when viewing a tweet

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, 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

Please note: Twitter will sometimes make changes we can't anticipate which break Control Panel for Twitter functionality, but we have almost 4 years of experience in quickly turning around fixes and adapting to new Twitter features.

TWITTER, TWEET and RETWEET are trademarks of Twitter Inc. or its affiliates

What’s New

Version 4.4.5

• Hide the Grok Actions button in focused Tweets

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

Hevghirl ,

Not working on iPhone

I tried to contact the developer via the App Store but it takes you to GitHub. GitHub requires technical knowledge that the developers should NOT expect ordinary users to have. Apple should not allow contact with the developer by any means other than through this site and perhaps an email address. I contacted Apple who tried to help but they couldn’t solve the issue. I love this app as it works perfectly on iPad but I’m getting really frustrated by trying to get out running on the iPhone. Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn’t help in the slightest.

Edit: I’ve discovered since Twitter is now X and the address has changed, allowing web page contents and browsing needed to be re-enabled for the new addresses as their automatically set to deny. I did not have to do this in my iPad. This problem has now been solved. No mention of this from the developers.

Gavin_H ,

Pretty great

Lot of control over the Twitter website. Would be nice if I could hide the 'following' tab text since I have hidden the 'for you' tab and the 'following' is superflous info. Would be perfect if I could hide all posts by blueticks.

webweasel ,

Essential

Essential plug-in which makes Twitter usable again. Banish the terrible ads and the blue ticks! Thank you to the developers!

App Privacy

The developer, Jonathan Buchanan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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