Clean Twitter Feed

Remove "promoted" posts

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

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You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Clean Twitter Feed
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Remove "promoted" posts
// @author       Sylvain Galibert
// @match       *://twitter.com/*
// @match       *://*.twitter.com/*
// @license MIT 
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Every second, check if there is an article (each post on Twitter is in an article element) which contains the text "Promoted" and hides it.
    // This gets rid of all the fake posts.
    // The interval is needed because Twitter constantly load new articles.
    var i = setInterval(function(){
            const articles = document.querySelectorAll("article");
            for (const article of articles){
                const articleContent = article.innerHTML;
                // This works fine, but it's brittle - TODO: identify better the "Promoted" posts to avoid catching posts which merely contain the word "Promoted".
                // note: search takes a regex expression and is case sensitive by default.
                if (articleContent.search("Promoted") !== -1){
                    article.style.display = "none";
                }
            }

    }, 1000);

})();