# Control Panel for Twitter

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Control Panel for Twitter and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for hiding most unwanted content on Twitter and undoing X-era changes, such as restoring the reverse-chronological Following timeline.

## Why people recommend it

- Hides most unwanted content (2 comments): "can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019191)) "uBlock or Control Panel for Twitter." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438956))
- Easy to install, works well (2 comments): "easy to install on PC, and you can also have it for your phone if you use twitter via the Firefox mobile browser" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749210)) "seems to work pretty well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557307))
- Makes Twitter more tolerable (2 comments): "has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525734)) "one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312349))
- Restores older timeline and dark mode (2 comments): "By default, your Home timeline will be the reverse-chronological "Following" timeline, which will only contain tweets and quote tweets from the people you follow." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116701)) "I added a "Dark mode theme" option to Control Panel for Twitter to bring it back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067141))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Control Panel for Twitter", https://hackerapproved.com/p/control-panel-for-twitter/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).