Resetting Twitter’s interests list using browser developer tools

Twitter has a list of interests you can define that affects what content you see on your home timeline. This is a list of 150 topics, most not chosen by you but considered something you should see. You can change these settings by going to: More -> Settings and Privacy -> Privacy and Safety -> […]


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Twitter has a list of interests you can define that affects what content you see on your home timeline. This is a list of 150 topics, most not chosen by you but considered something you should see. You can change these settings by going to:

More -> Settings and Privacy -> Privacy and Safety -> Content you see -> Interests

This is a UX nightmare and unchecking 150 boxes isn’t fun, so you can also toggle all 150 in bulk by opening developer tools, going to the Console and running this command:


$$(‘input[type=checkbox]’).forEach(c=>{c.click()})

You can see it in action in the following screencast:

It may give you a “Twitter is over capacity” message, but that’s just temporary.


This content originally appeared on Christian Heilmann and was authored by Chris Heilmann


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