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How to turn off the X (Twitter) feed and keep posting

Deleting the app solves the scrolling and breaks everything else you use X for. The goal is narrower: no feed, but posting, replies, notifications and messages still work. Here is every way to get close, starting with what X gives you for free.

By Lovlin Thakkar, who builds Muffle · · Updated · 2 min read

With what X already has

  • Use Following, not For You. Following shows only accounts you follow. Still a feed, but a smaller one you chose.
  • Make a List your home. Put the 20 or 30 accounts you actually read into a private List and bookmark its URL. Lists are in order and only show those accounts. Muffle's No distractions blanks Lists too, so pick one or the other.
  • Bookmark Notifications instead of Home. Open x.com/notifications directly, so you land on replies to you rather than the timeline.
  • Prune Interests and mute words. In Settings, under Privacy and safety, Content you see, untick topics you never want. It changes what fills the feed, not whether there is one.

All four are free and work on your phone. None removes the feed: it is one tap away, which is the problem.

Site blockers

A blocker makes X unreachable for a set time. It works, and it also blocks posting, replies and messages, so people who need X for work end up switching it off and forgetting to switch it back on.

Browser extensions that remove the feed

ExtensionWhat goesPriceBrowsers
MuffleHome, Explore, trends, search results, Lists and other people's timelinesFreeChrome, Edge, Brave
News Feed EradicatorThe home feed, Explore's For You and trendsFreeChrome, Firefox
Control Panel for TwitterCan disable the home timeline and send you to NotificationsFreeChrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, iOS

Muffle is the strictest of the three: search results and other people's profiles go blank too, because that is where the scrolling moves once Home is gone. News Feed Eradicator covers a dozen other sites. Control Panel for Twitter works on an iPhone. Muffle can also switch the feed off on its own once you pass a daily time limit.

On your phone

Extensions do not run in the X app. On a phone the best you can do is the Lists trick above, plus the app time limit your phone already has (Screen Time on iPhone, Digital Wellbeing on Android). Control Panel for Twitter works in Safari on iOS if you use X in the browser.

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