Create Your Own Distraction-Free Twitter Interface
Twitter, a place to be bad about the world and about yourself, is still useful for some things. You can follow his real friends or use it as a news aggregator or a place to track accounts collecting art, music or funny videos. But Twitter will try really hard to get you to follow more people, “discover” more “trends” and click on ads. Here’s how to cut out the parts you don’t like.
Writer John Pavlus has created his own stylesheet that hides much of Twitter’s interface. You can also use it if you follow these instructions from Pavlus’s website :
- Install the Stylus Chrome extension
- Install Pavlus Stylesheet, Tame Twitter
- Open Stylus from the extensions menu and edit your stylesheet.
As the site explains, you can bring back certain elements, but by default it heavily blocks, even the ability to tweet, like, or retweet. (I’ve manually re-enabled several features above.) So if you like, you can turn Twitter into a blog with clean links, no interactivity, and distraction without distraction.
How I Redesigned Twitter To Make It Harmless | Fast Company