How to Hide Verified Replies on Twitter

Chrome extension

The Twitter Verified Replies Hider is a Chrome browser extension designed to automatically hide replies from verified accounts on twitter.com because the way they're cluttering the replies with unrelated content for farming engangement intention reduce a lot of my user experience on twitter.

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Motive

Lately my user experience on Twitter is taking its toll because there are too many unrelated content in twitter replies. Most of them are from verified account with, I suspect, auto-generated content. Let’s take a look at an example.

This is from an account with big followers in Twitter. When you open their replies, this is what it looks like.

A gorilla video inside a reply about elk?

If we scroll down more, we can even found an account that spams unrelated videos. Surprisingly, Twitter doesn’t flag this account as a spammer and hide their replies.

So with this motive, I went ahead and learn how to build a chrome extension. The extension will run a script that check each replies and hide it if it is from a verified account.

How to activate it

Here’s the step to activate it

  1. Download the zip from here

  2. Then, navigate to your chrome extension

  3. Enable Developer mode in the top right corner.

  4. Click on “Load unpacked” and select the directory where you cloned/downloaded the zip.

Results