# Control Panel for Twitter

> Gives you more control over Twitter and adds missing features and UI improvements

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-panel-for-twitter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-panel-for-twitter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `control-panel-for-twitter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jonny Buchanan
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Daily users:** 53,536
- **Weekly downloads:** 827
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (515 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.24.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2019-07-23
- **Size:** 152 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-twitter/)
- **Website:** [https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter#support](https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter#support)

## Description

Control Panel for Twitter is a powerful Chrome extension designed to put control back into your hands while using Twitter. It defaults your Home timeline to the reverse-chronological "Following" feed, suppressing the algorithmic "For you" timeline to minimize unwanted content. The extension offers extensive customization, letting you hide retweets, quote tweets, and various UI elements such as Twitter Blue features, "Who to follow" recommendations, and distracting sidebar content.

UI enhancements include replacing X branding, restoring classic interaction links, and providing font and button style tweaks to reduce visual clutter. For engagement reduction, it hides tweet metrics and the action bar while allowing replies. Additional features simplify navigation by hiding unused menu items and buttons. With instant application of user preferences, Control Panel for Twitter transforms your Twitter experience into a more focused, personalized, and less distracting environment.

## Rankings

- #310 — Overall
- #4 — Social & Communication
- #1 — control
- #1 — panel
- #1 — retweet
- #1 — self control

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `twitter.com`
- `mobile.twitter.com`
- `x.com`
- `mobile.x.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users repeatedly praise Control Panel for Twitter for greatly improving usability and calling it indispensable, noting it can hide or reduce the For You/recommendations content and make Twitter feel more manageable. However, the top issues across reviews are reliability problems with the For You/Hiding feature and the default to following timelines not working, along with a broken or non-functional chronological ordering in the following section. Overall sentiment is positive when features work, but reviewers want fixes for the timeline-related controls and related UI suppression options.

### Pros

- Significantly improves usability of Twitter and makes it bearable.
- Indispensable / highly helpful extension.
- Helps hide or reduce the For You / recommendations content when the feature works.
- Generally works well across many areas and makes Twitter usable.

### Cons

- For You tab / recommendations removal not working or inconsistent.
- Defaulting to following timelines not working.
- Chronological order in the following section doesn't function.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/control-panel-for-twitter)