Stylesheet for a Calmer Twitter

If Twitter continues to cull features from their website, we might end up with a calmer version of the website, one that doesn’t scream “here, engage with this too” from every corner. Just kidding, attention-grabbing features will continue to spoil the experience forever because attention is the only way for Twitter to make money.

But I want to read, not engage, so I created a custom stylesheet, which removes annoying and useless clutter from Twitter’s website. The opinionated list of cruft hidden by the style sheet includes:

• Explore, Communities, Bookmarks, and More links; and the Tweet button from the left-hand menu,
• The complete right-hand column, including the “What’s happening” and “Who to follow” sections,
• The toggle to switch between top tweets and latest tweets timelines because nobody needs an algorithmically curated timeline,
• Navigation from the user profile that includes Tweets, Tweets and replies, media and likes,
• Any user and tweet statistics:
  • The user’s joined date,
  • Follower and following counts, and
  • Retweet and like counts
• Promoted tweets in the timeline, and
• The “Who to follow” section in the timeline.

Get the stylesheet now and add it as a custom CSS in your favourite browser.