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Hides all the metrics on Twitter.
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The Twitter interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity online, enumerating followers, likes, retweets, and more. But what are the effects of these numbers on who we follow, what we post, or how we feel when we use the site? Inviting us to consider these questions through our own experience, Twitter Demetricator is a web browser extension that hides the metrics. Follower, like, and notification counts disappear. “29.2K Tweets” under a trending hashtag becomes, simply, “Tweets”. Through changes like these, Demetricator lets us try out Twitter without the numbers, to see what happens when we can no longer judge ourselves and others in metric terms. With this artwork, I aim to disrupt our obsession with social media metrics, to reveal how they guide our behavior, and to ask who most benefits from a system that quantifies our public interactions online.
Works with https://twitter.com and https://tweetdeck.twitter.com.
100% support for many language versions of Twitter, including English, English (UK), German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Sweedish; near full support for many other languages.
https://bengrosser.com/projects/twitter-demetricator/
Latest reviews
- (2024-11-19) Fábio Alves (O Escorpião): It doesn't work anymore.
- (2024-05-25) xyzie blue: hasn't been working for a week or two but was fantastic while it did! it saved my mental health greatly (,:
- (2024-05-18) Boyo: Thank you for saving my mental health 5/16 update: it stopped working. I hope it gets an update to work again!
- (2024-05-17) desmormos: I would love if this were updated to work (stopped working around 16/05/24 for me). was wonderful though, thank you!!
- (2024-05-15) Paul: Been using this for years and absolutely loved it - sadly it appears that it doesn't work anymore.
- (2024-05-15) Mohd. Aqmal Idlan Bin Morsidi: after 15/5/2024, this extension is not working anymore
- (2024-05-14) Raymond Berg: After the algorithm updates in twi, this extension stopped working. 14.05.2024
- (2024-05-14) 卢萧予: 2024.5.15 The extension is no longer working
- (2024-03-11) Julian: I like
- (2024-03-10) Israel Wilkins: I love it! I always wanted a extension that did this. However like other reviews are saying, some metrics still need to be hidden. Like followers and bookmarks.
- (2023-12-03) Ella Dharmawan: please give new update so i don't see a followers i'm not a twitter artist
- (2023-11-28) Cake Chan: Doesn't work anymore!! Fix the hide follower count please ;;;
- (2023-03-24) AlsoFlick: Its a great extension, It has to be updated again with twitter counting how many bookmarks someone does per post now since that is now visible. As well in DMs too, the follower count is shown when you are speaking to someone in the direct messages.
- (2023-03-24) AlsoFlick: Its a great extension, It has to be updated again with twitter counting how many bookmarks someone does per post now since that is now visible. As well in DMs too, the follower count is shown when you are speaking to someone in the direct messages.
- (2022-12-23) Vivian Inkwell: Does exactly what I wanted. Can we have a switch that just hides view counts while leaving the others alone, though? Likes and retweets aren't as... pervasive as the new view counter.
- (2022-12-23) Vivian Inkwell: Does exactly what I wanted. Can we have a switch that just hides view counts while leaving the others alone, though? Likes and retweets aren't as... pervasive as the new view counter.
- (2022-12-23) BlakDragon220: It's SO CLOSE!! It needs the update to lose the real-time view metrics that were dropped 12/22/2022! PLEASE GET ON IT!
- (2022-12-23) BlakDragon220: It's SO CLOSE!! It needs the update to lose the real-time view metrics that were dropped 12/22/2022! PLEASE GET ON IT!
- (2022-12-08) Pip: Helps me not worry so much about numbers
- (2022-12-08) Pip: Helps me not worry so much about numbers
- (2022-12-02) T: Hi, I've been using this extension for almost a year and I love it!! Though recently, it hasn't been hiding my following and followers numbers and I don't know how to fix it.
- (2022-12-02) T: Hi, I've been using this extension for almost a year and I love it!! Though recently, it hasn't been hiding my following and followers numbers and I don't know how to fix it.
- (2022-09-06) just shiro: This was a great extension, worked perfectly until today. I don't know if it's because of chrome's newest update but I still can't see likes and retweets but I can see my follower/following count. 2022 edit: It's still alright
- (2022-09-06) just shiro: This was a great extension, worked perfectly until today. I don't know if it's because of chrome's newest update but I still can't see likes and retweets but I can see my follower/following count. 2022 edit: It's still alright
- (2022-07-11) Naga: I'm sorry. Not what I'm looking for. But It's good design.
- (2022-07-11) Naga: I'm sorry. Not what I'm looking for. But It's good design.
- (2022-05-12) Jay Kozatt: Lately my own self-esteem has taken a massive hit due to these awful metrics. This extension is a breath of fresh air for me. It feels so comforting to no longer be a slave to the numbers, so that I can soon enough begin my recovery. Thank you so much, Grosser. I don't think it's an understatement to say that his work has probably saved my life.
- (2022-05-12) Jay Kozatt: Lately my own self-esteem has taken a massive hit due to these awful metrics. This extension is a breath of fresh air for me. It feels so comforting to no longer be a slave to the numbers, so that I can soon enough begin my recovery. Thank you so much, Grosser. I don't think it's an understatement to say that his work has probably saved my life.
- (2022-02-05) FELICIA CHANDRA -: omg!! I've just tried it today and I'm amazed. I'm constantly battling with social anxiety from using social media especially when it comes to the followers count. I really don't want to see that and it seems like that number controls my anxiety, I hate it so much! But after I tried this extension, all of that numbers were gone, my anxiety went down a lot! thank you!! It would be great if in the future there's an option to toggle people you are mutually following each other (since they're my friends and I don't want to ignore them because I don't know if they're replying to my comment or not on my TL) But overall this is an amazing extension!!
- (2022-02-05) FELICIA CHANDRA -: omg!! I've just tried it today and I'm amazed. I'm constantly battling with social anxiety from using social media especially when it comes to the followers count. I really don't want to see that and it seems like that number controls my anxiety, I hate it so much! But after I tried this extension, all of that numbers were gone, my anxiety went down a lot! thank you!! It would be great if in the future there's an option to toggle people you are mutually following each other (since they're my friends and I don't want to ignore them because I don't know if they're replying to my comment or not on my TL) But overall this is an amazing extension!!
- (2022-02-05) Anh: Love this extension! I would love to be able to see comment numbers however- I use twitter mostly for community engagement, and it's hard to engage in conversations if I have no clue if they're being had!
- (2022-02-05) Anh: Love this extension! I would love to be able to see comment numbers however- I use twitter mostly for community engagement, and it's hard to engage in conversations if I have no clue if they're being had!
- (2021-12-09) Kyle Liu: I found the twitters numbers are too addictive! I found myself constantly checking the follower numbers for increase or decrease. I felt bad if I see people quit following. Felt good if I saw more people followed. This has affect on the brain dopamine reward circuit. This can't be good. This plugin instantly hide all the metrics without setting after installation. Now, I feel peace. Thank you!
- (2021-12-09) Kyle Liu: I found the twitters numbers are too addictive! I found myself constantly checking the follower numbers for increase or decrease. I felt bad if I see people quit following. Felt good if I saw more people followed. This has affect on the brain dopamine reward circuit. This can't be good. This plugin instantly hide all the metrics without setting after installation. Now, I feel peace. Thank you!
- (2021-08-18) Komma: It works like it intended to do. And (as a content creator) I can't use twitter without this extension. Indispensable. Thank you very much for my sanity.
- (2021-08-18) Komma: It works like it intended to do. And (as a content creator) I can't use twitter without this extension. Indispensable. Thank you very much for my sanity.
- (2021-08-08) d: Great extension, would love to see it for Reddit and YouTube as well.
- (2021-08-08) d: Great extension, would love to see it for Reddit and YouTube as well.
- (2021-08-07) Marina Neira McKinzie: This is incredible for my mental health. I do wish There was an option to show reply count, however. I do want to engage with my followers. So I'd like to see how many replies a post has. I just don't want to see likes, RTs, and especially, how many followers I have. If you could make it so replies could be toggled on, it would be perfect. I am grateful for the extension all the same!
- (2021-08-07) Marina Neira McKinzie: This is incredible for my mental health. I do wish There was an option to show reply count, however. I do want to engage with my followers. So I'd like to see how many replies a post has. I just don't want to see likes, RTs, and especially, how many followers I have. If you could make it so replies could be toggled on, it would be perfect. I am grateful for the extension all the same!
- (2021-07-21) Luna: I know this is perhaps kind of "defeating the point" but I still would really prefer to see mine, via whitelist. I've been needing to hide everyone else's metrics for a long time so this is a lifesaver. Being able to toggle mine and only mine on or off would be even better. I'm also planning on sending this to some of my friends who are hyper active on Twitter as well. ^u^
- (2021-07-21) Luna: I know this is perhaps kind of "defeating the point" but I still would really prefer to see mine, via whitelist. I've been needing to hide everyone else's metrics for a long time so this is a lifesaver. Being able to toggle mine and only mine on or off would be even better. I'm also planning on sending this to some of my friends who are hyper active on Twitter as well. ^u^
- (2021-06-09) Joshua Daniel: Really like the idea with this extension. My only issue with it is that when I hover over a post, it still ends up showing me the metrics of that post. If I'm not moused over it, the numbers are hidden but as soon as I mouse of it, they come back
- (2021-06-09) Joshua Daniel: Really like the idea with this extension. My only issue with it is that when I hover over a post, it still ends up showing me the metrics of that post. If I'm not moused over it, the numbers are hidden but as soon as I mouse of it, they come back
- (2021-04-19) William Leclerc: Does what it says on the tin.
- (2021-04-19) William Leclerc: Does what it says on the tin.
- (2021-04-08) Uni: Great extension to help with insecurity and anxiety caused by social media, would reccomend. However, it could use soe ore items like hiding replies, hiding the date of the tweet once expanded (when viewing it on a timeline, it hides the time at the top right, but when expanded you still see the date posted). And possible the ability to hide related tweets section too. d(-_☆)
- (2021-04-08) Uni: Great extension to help with insecurity and anxiety caused by social media, would reccomend. However, it could use soe ore items like hiding replies, hiding the date of the tweet once expanded (when viewing it on a timeline, it hides the time at the top right, but when expanded you still see the date posted). And possible the ability to hide related tweets section too. d(-_☆)
- (2021-01-08) Kelly “Kelly” Pettersen: Just installed this and I'm already so happy. As an artist, I absolutely struggle with critically analyzing the amount of engagement I get and compare it to others around me. I'm ecstatic to have these numbers hidden from me so I can focus less on others and moreso on myself and feeling better about the works I put out. Truly- thank you so much.
- (2021-01-08) Kelly P: Just installed this and I'm already so happy. As an artist, I absolutely struggle with critically analyzing the amount of engagement I get and compare it to others around me. I'm ecstatic to have these numbers hidden from me so I can focus less on others and moreso on myself and feeling better about the works I put out. Truly- thank you so much.