Better Bird

Makes Twitter a bit better

What is Better Bird?

Better Bird is a Google Chrome extension that enhances your Twitter experience by moving content to the left for easier reading, expanding shortened URLs, displaying saved searches and mentions, and hiding unnecessary sections. It also widens the layout and offers a serif font option. Get Better Bird now and enjoy a better Twitter experience!

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Stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-02-07

By: Matt Sherman

Users: 201

Rating: 4.56 (16)

Version: 0.4.16 (Last updated: 2013-05-05)

Creation date: 2013-05-05

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
*://twitter.com/*
*://search.twitter.com/*
*://api.twitter.com/*

Size: 85.63K

Email: mw*****@gmail.com

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Summary

Analyze keywords

This Google Chrome extension will:

Move content (timeline) to the left-hand side and the dashboard to the right for easier reading.
Expand shortened URL’s wherever possible, so you know where you are actually clicking.
Display your saved searches & @mentions.
Hide “Trends”, “Who to Follow”, and “#Discover”
Widen the layout and (optionally) use a serif font

It’s open source, too: https://github.com/clipperhouse/BetterBird

Uses the lovely Twitter icons from Design Junction.

User reviews

Does not work

kurage, 2020-10-08

bem legal e consome pouca memória

Vinicius Santana, 2015-10-14

It would be great to be able to collapse the images. now expanded by default.

Juan Diego Caballero, 2013-10-29

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Safety

Risk impact

Better Bird is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.