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# Better Twitter



Web Extension for Google Chrome and Firefox.



Hide what's not important for you on Twitter.com



Toggle these preferences in the extension options page:



- **No fame**: Hide number of followers and following count

- **No vanity**: Hide number of tweet likes, retweets and replies

- Hide promoted tweets

- Hide retweets

- Hide tweets liked by others

- Hide “Trends for you”

- Hide “Who to follow”

- Hide website footer



## Install from store:



- [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitter-extension)

- [Google Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-twitter/illmpnnkeobcgnnjghammeohfjpjoljp)



## Install from source:



### Google Chrome

- Clone or download this repository:

  ```

  [email protected]:oslego/better-twitter.git

  ```

- Navigate to `chrome://extensions` in Chrome's URL bar

- Click the _Developer mode_ toggle

- Click _Load unpacked_

- Select the cloned repository folder



## Changelog

Version 2.1.3 (17 May 2024)

- Fixed bug where the extension does not work on x.com after the URL change from twitter.com ([issue #69](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/69))

- Fixed bug where the Hide Retweets option hides all tweets on the Following timeline ([issue #67](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/67))

- Fixed bug where promoted tweets are not hidden



Version 2.1.2 (14 January 2023)

- Fixed bug where promoted tweets were not hidden on request. ([issue #54](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/54))



Version 2.1.1 (4 June 2022)

- Fixed bug where the option to hide trends hides the entire sidebar. ([issue #49](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/49))



Version 2.1.0 (1 January 2021)

- Added option to hide tweets liked by others. (⭐️ New feature)

- Fixed bug where search results for people are hidden. ([issue #12](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/12))

- Fixed bug where options did not apply on mobile.twitter.com. ([issue #22](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/22))



Version 2.0.2 (3 October 2020)

- Patch bump to participate in Promoted Add-ons Pilot Program on [addons.mozilla.org](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitter-extension)



Version 2.0.1 (4 August 2020)

- Patch bump to fix broken extension uploaded to [addons.mozilla.org](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-twitter-extension)



Version 2.0.0 (3 August 2020)



With this major version bump, support was removed for hiding things in the old Twitter UI (pre-2019).

If you still need that, please use the [v1.4.4 legacy version](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/releases/tag/v1.4.4).



- Removed support for old Twitter UI (pre-2019)

- Added option to hide retweets (⭐️ New feature)

- Fixed hiding "Who to follow" recommendations when thy appear in a user's timeline. ([issue #7](https://github.com/oslego/better-twitter/issues/7))



Version 1.4.4 (3 June 2020)



- Fix a regression introduced in v1.4.3 which caused an endless refresh loop on a user's "Followers" and "Following" timelines when the option to hide "Who to follow" was enabled.



Version 1.4.3 (2 June 2020)



- Hide "Who to follow" recommendations when they appear in the main timeline as well as those that appear in the sidebar.



Version 1.4.2 (4 March 2020)



- Fixed a bug where video playback was broken when the option to hide promoted tweets was set.



Version 1.4.1 (3 March 2020)



- Fixed a bug where promoted tweets were not hidden when the option was set.



Version 1.4 (18 October 2019)



- Removed option to hide user profile card tooltips that show when hovering over user names because it also blocks media previews.



Version 1.3 (3 October 2019)



- Added option to hide user profile card tooltips that show when hovering over user names.



Version 1.2 (10 August 2019)

- Added support for new Twitter UI (circa 2019)

- Removed "No Bragging" feature

- Removed support for obsolete features in new Twitter UI:

  - hide own likes count

  - hide own moments

  - hide tweet stats summary

- Renamed "No popularity" setting to "No vanity"

- Removed ability to differentiate between vanity metrics for own profile vs other profiles. Vanity: all or nothing.