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Restores the twitter logo/favicon to X (twitter) & brings back the original Twitter experience.
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🐦 Freebird - X (Twitter) Logo Restorer 🔄
Freebird is a Chrome extension designed to bring back the classic Twitter logo and favicon. This extension restores the classic Twitter logo, bringing back the nostalgia and familiarity of the original design. Free the bird.
🌟 Features
Logo Restoration: The extension replaces the new X (twitter) logo with the classic one, restoring the familiar look of your Twitter interface.
Favicon Restoration: Not just the logo, but the favicon (the small icon you see on the browser tab) is also replaced with the classic one.
Tweet Button Restoration: Changes the "Post" button text to "Tweet," bringing back the traditional Twitter terminology. It also restores the "Retweet" button as well.
Home Button Restoration: Restores the original birdhouse icon for the home button.
Header Title Restoration: The extension changes the Chrome Tab's title from "X" to "Twitter," maintaining the consistent appearance of the platform.
Tweet Text Restoration: Changes instances where "Post" or "Repost" text is shown to "Tweet" / "Retweet".
Seamless Integration: The extension works smoothly and does not disrupt your Twitter browsing experience.
📝 How It Works
Locates the Logo: The extension identifies the X (twitter) logo by targeting the SVG path of the logo.
Replaces the Logo: Once the logo is identified, it is replaced with the classic Twitter logo. The same process is repeated for the favicon.
Tweet Button Restoration: Changes the "Post" button text to "Tweet," bringing back the traditional Twitter terminology. It also restores the "Retweet" button as well.
Changes Header Title: The extension changes the Chrome Tab's title from "X" to "Twitter," maintaining the consistent appearance of the platform.
V1.29 Notes:
- Tweet text/icon button color restored to twitter blue from white
V1.28 Notes:
- Tweet button on inner tweet panel restored
(tab headers will be fixed shortly the developer is aware and working towards a solution)
V1.27 Notes:
- support re-added for both x.com and twitter.com domains
V1.26 Notes:
- Tweet text buttons restored from twitter update
- New extension icon added
V1.25 Notes:
- Bug fix for accounts with "X" in tab title
V1.24 Notes:
- Bug fix for "Undo Retweet" text
V1.23 Notes:
- Hover tooltip for tablet sidebar tweet button restored to "Tweet"
V1.22 Notes:
- In For You tab bubble "posts" text changed to "tweets"
- "tweets" text restored on blocked accounts
- "tweets" text restored on account that have you blocked
V1.21 Notes:
- "tweets" text restored in trending tab
- "These tweets are protected" text restored
- "Save tweet" text restored
- V1.1-2 changelog notes moved to changelog.md file for brevity
V1.20 Notes:
- Retweets text in analytics tab fix
[~This extension is made by an independent developer in their spare time and is offered at no cost. Like you, the developer wishes to restore X back to Twitter. Please keep this in mind and be kind when leaving a review :)~]
Latest reviews
- (2025-05-31) Grayson Waterman: It is great, but could you make the color change with the color you choose in display settings, as well as if you change it to dark mode?
- (2025-04-04) Ronnie Hammade: Best extension out there. Love it.
- (2024-10-03) Dominus Zero: Thanks to whoever created this extension, now I can live normally again, seriously thank you very much ¡Five Stars!
- (2024-09-05) No Idea Lol: Works well. Sometimes the UI glitches and the tweet button goes back to post for a second but otherwise, great. "Premium" could go back to "verified"
- (2024-08-31) Engin Dogan: It's a good extension. Absolutely cannot stand the rebrand or Musk. I would appreciate if the Bird would be colored white (or black when using light mode) instead of blue. As well as refer to "Premium" as Twitter Blue instead (as nobody calls it "Premium" anyway).
- (2024-08-26) Veljko Jankovic: I love this extention! I missed twitter x looked so ugly
- (2024-08-23) Rodney Luo: X logo is too ugly.
- (2024-08-16) Eric Ketzer: Nice, it works perfectly! Welcome back, Blue Bird!
- (2024-06-01) Jake Young: thank you! also please make the twitter logo follow the chosen color scheme. also for some reason it doesn't replace the text in the tab's title. also can you make it replace the premium icon in the sidebar with the old twitter blue icon instead of the twitter logo?
- (2024-05-30) BRENTGAMEZ (Brent Halter): Love this extension, The only quibble I have with it is it doesn't follow the display color selection (If you select the Yellow, Pink, Purple, Orange, or Green option it always shows up as Blue)
- (2024-05-25) James Carthew: Now works as it used to.
- (2024-05-25) Jordan Haffner: Great extension, works as advertised. However with the latest update it does not work when accessing the site from twitter.com, only when accessing it from x.com. It would be nice if it worked on both domains, since as it stands I am still able to access it from the regular twitter URL. I also wonder if it's possible to prevent the redirect to x.com now that crusty Elon forced the change and keep the URL as twitter as well as the shared links. Edit: This has now been fixed, so back to 5* it is. :)
- (2024-05-19) Jace Vinson: Pretty great extension. But can you please fix the home button? Even when I'm not on the home section it's still filled in with white instead of being an outline like it's suppose to be when not on the home section (The buttons are white in dark and dim mode, but black in light mode). Edit: There's another problem. When you click on "View tweet/post engagments" on one of your tweets, the retweets section is called "undo retweet" for some reason. Edit again (12/25/2023): When you visit a private account it says "These posts are protected" instead of "tweets". Also under the names of the trends on the trending tab, it says how many tweets/posts there are relating to that trend, but it says "posts" instead of "tweets". Edit again (1/6/2024): When you scroll down on your home page, a blue bar will appear at the top when more people have tweeted, it will have three people's profile pictures on it next to the word "posted", could you change that back to saying "tweeted" please? Also when you go on a suspended account it still says "X suspends accounts that violate the X Rules". Also if you visit an account that has you blocked it still says "posts". Edit again (1/12/2024): On the signup screen for Twitter Blue/X Premium, there's still some X related things there. Also pinned tweets used to say "Pinned Tweet" on them, now it's just "pinned". Also the search bar used to say "Search Twitter", now it just says "Search". Also when you visit an account that has only 1 tweet, it still says "1 post" at the top. Also when you click the three dots on one of your tweets, the delete button used to say "Delete Tweet", also the screen that pops up when you click on "Edit with Premium" is still X themed. Edit again (2/22/2024): This request might sound like too much of a burden, so if you don't want too I get it. But could you change it back to Twitter on Twitter's subdomains? Like about.twitter.com, help.twitter.com, blog.twitter.com, and/or whatever other subdomains Twitter had please? Edit again (5/18/2024): They finally changed the main URL from "twitter.com" to "x.com", it took them nearly a year for some reason. But do you know if there's a way to make it say "twitter.com" again?
- (2024-05-18) Hasan Akdoğan: EDIT: It got fixed, now works as intended. The site url changed from twitter.com to x.com which broke the extension
- (2024-05-18) xatilore: Great extension! Just one thing though, the post button is indeed "Tweet" but once you get to the popup where you write the tweet, if you want to post the tweet the small tweet button is still called "Post", which shouldn't be.
- (2024-05-18) Богдан: doesn't work on twitter.com. only works on x.com. fix it please
- (2024-05-18) Dev: good extension. replaces all x with twitter
- (2024-05-17) Carl Aflac Vlogs: fix the extension
- (2024-05-17) Nur Rizki R: Good extension. But as per 17/05/2024 stopped working. Hope you can fix and update this.
- (2024-05-17) Orthan Risin: Great plugin but it did stop working today. Hope that can be fixed
- (2024-05-16) Anthony Luka Davenport: The tweet button isn't restored.
- (2024-05-16) Jordan: been good but just stopped working today another extension i found still works but only the top logo its not as good as this one i hope you can fix it
- (2024-04-15) Sofía Gutiérrez: 4 starts because it replaces "post" with "tweet" anywhere, even in your own tweets or other people's. Which is bad for two reasons: 1. "post" could be talking about another platform (eg. a "LinkedIn post") 2. I want to see people's stance on the rebrand. Like, I want to know if someone really uses "tweet" or not
- (2024-04-04) Matteo Gamba: Very pleasant. Old Twitter is back.
- (2024-03-31) Carter “Mister Carter” Llorente: only issue is it still says premium and not twitter blue but still pretty good! :)
- (2024-03-03) brian pillion: One issue I've noticed is that the word/syllable "post" in any tweet gets auto replaced with "tweet."
- (2024-03-02) Faus: I LIKE IT
- (2024-02-26) Josh Densle (Josh): Probably the best and most faithful Twitter-be-back extension I've seen/used. One minor issue is that at the top of tweets, it still says "ThisPerson Reposted" instead of "ThisPerson Retweeted"
- (2024-01-28) Terminator 101: works
- (2024-01-22) Tancred: all nice. but it'd be amazing if the share links will be replaced with twitter.com too instead of x.com :)
- (2024-01-20) Sheep: It does! I am happy and my day is restored.
- (2024-01-15) MarcoPlayz: Neat extension, but there's a pretty funny bug where every "X" in a user's name (capital and lowercase) in the tab is changed to "Twitter", so for example, "SpaceX" will become "SpaceTwitter" in the tabs. If this is too hard to patch out it's no big deal, just thought I'll let you know.
- (2024-01-10) Angel Campos: At the moment to hover in the button to tweet, still appears "post" but everything reminds me old twitter, ty 💙
- (2023-12-21) John Barberson: Amazing extension! Only thing is that looking at my retweets it says "You reposted" instead of "You retweeted". Not a big deal at all and its a great extension cause the rebrand was the worst idea ever
- (2023-12-17) Susan Lana: This is a really great Extension! The only thing I currently recommend is to fix the "Undo Repost" option to say "Undo Retweet". I mean it's not that big a deal but it'd just be nice to see it fixed as well.
- (2023-12-02) madadog: Good, works very well. Although I have one request: before Twitter was renamed to X, "Premium" was called Blue beforehand. So to keep with the theme can you make it so it says Blue instead of Premium? Thanks!
- (2023-11-28) Seth Traub: 👍👍👍 In the messages tab, it says "You shared a Post"
- (2023-11-28) Jer Jearest: Amazing!! When I go into a account's tweet, it says "Post" and "Live on X"
- (2023-11-21) Navizar Lubis: My Twitter still says "Post", "Repost", and "Quote."
- (2023-11-11) Michael Hartman: It still says REPOST and QUOTE rather than TWEET and RETWEET
- (2023-11-06) Nathan Kam: Almost perfect! Just need to change the "Posts" tab to "Tweets" in user profiles please.
- (2023-11-06) Nathan Kam: Almost perfect! Just need to change the "Posts" tab to "Tweets" in user profiles please.
- (2023-10-30) Frederick Hofmann: its called twitter
- (2023-10-30) Frederick Hofmann: its called twitter
- (2023-10-15) Carlos: Works 100%!
- (2023-10-15) Carlos: Works 100%!
- (2023-10-12) Eric M: I love it, can you have it remove the Premium thing in left hand nav and the blue check marks as well?
- (2023-10-12) Eric M: I love it, can you have it remove the Premium thing in left hand nav and the blue check marks as well?
- (2023-10-10) Antonio Abeyta: Its a great extension, however I have a couple suggestions, if a user us hovering over the retweets button, a button says "repost" can that be updated to "retweet" again? And as of today, the home button has been replaced from once was a birdhouse icon, to a regular looking home button, can that be restored as well? Here is a link that shows that the old and new look like. https://imgur.com/a/DRoO9gn Thanks so much and i look forward to having my old twitter UI back!
- (2023-10-10) Antonio Abeyta: Its a great extension, however I have a couple suggestions, if a user us hovering over the retweets button, a button says "repost" can that be updated to "retweet" again? And as of today, the home button has been replaced from once was a birdhouse icon, to a regular looking home button, can that be restored as well? Here is a link that shows that the old and new look like. https://imgur.com/a/DRoO9gn Thanks so much and i look forward to having my old twitter UI back!