How to Block or Limit X (Twitter) on Chrome

A weekly limit is optional and free, on the same screen as the daily limit. Hours run from 0 to 168, plus minutes. Presets are 3h, 7h, 14h, 21h, and 28h. The week is Monday through Sunday. x.com blocks when that week's time hits the cap, even if today is still under the daily limit. One hostname uses one of six free sites whether you set daily, weekly, or both. Pro removes the cap.

Open Advanced Settings (Time Windows) from the popup, or edit the site on the options page. Pick Workdays, Weekends, or All, then a start and an end on the same day. A window cannot cross midnight, so 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM is two windows.

A window limit counts only time inside that window. Set it to 0 hours and 0 minutes to block X for the whole span, such as Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Outside the window, the daily and weekly limits still apply. A window with no limit of its own does not block X by itself.

The page is titled Time's Up. It names x.com and the reason (daily, weekly, or time window) and shows time used against the limit, including weekly numbers when a weekly limit is set. Extend Session is +5m, +15m, +30m, and +1h. Add Time & Unblock adds that amount to the saved limit that ran out. A 30-minute cap plus 15 stays 45 until you lower it.

Continue to Website stays disabled until the cap is no longer exceeded. Show Usage History is 7 days. You can turn the limit off or disable the extension. There is no password. For a child, use Family Link or the Chrome policy below.

twitter.com, www.twitter.com, and mobile.twitter.com redirect to x.com and keep the path, so twitter.com/home opens as x.com/home. www.x.com goes through twitter.com to x.com. mobile.x.com goes straight to x.com. One x.com row covers those bookmarks. The other names never stay loaded, so a row for them never fires and still uses a free slot. Type x.com in Add Site.

Home (/home), Explore (/explore), notifications (/notifications), Messages (/messages), Grok (/i/grok), profiles, posts (/<user>/status/<id>, still often called tweets), and Spaces share one clock. For You and Following both sit on /home, so the timeline and Messages cannot be capped separately.

Path Analysis is opt-in, free on up to 3 hosts, with a tree 2 levels deep (10 on Pro). It can show /home against /messages. It only tracks and never blocks a path.

Limited Sites and the weekly ranking list x.com once. Sections are not extra rows.

X Pro, formerly TweetDeck, runs on pro.x.com, with its own clock and free slot. Add it only if you use it. Logged out, it redirects to the x.com login. tweetdeck.twitter.com redirects to pro.twitter.com, a different hostname.

An embedded post is an iframe from platform.twitter.com, so it is not blocked or counted. t.co only forwards to the destination. The x.com limit applies if that page is on x.com.

Sign in with X can open a top-level x.com window. Over the limit, that window can show Time's Up. There is no login exception.

Time ticks once a second on the active tab of the focused window, and only while you are active. Scrolling and clicking count. After 15 seconds without keyboard or mouse input, or when the screen locks, counting pauses. Background tabs are not counted.

Incognito is not supported. Chrome turns the extension off unless you enable Allow in Incognito at chrome://extensions, under SiteKeeper, then Details, and we do not promise that mode. Other browsers and the X app are outside it.

In the Family Link app, open the child, then Controls, then Google Chrome and Web, then Manage sites, then Blocked sites. Add x.com. Add the domain x instead if you want every subdomain, including pro. Also add twitter.com, or the domain twitter.

Android and Chromebook are fully supervised. On Windows, Mac, and Linux it applies only while the child is signed into that Chrome profile, and they can sign out, switch profile, or use another browser. Family Link blocks. It has no per-site daily timer for X in Chrome.

URLBlocklist works on a personal computer and needs an administrator. It blocks matching URLs. It has no time limit. A bare domain also matches its subdomains, so x.com covers pro.x.com, and twitter.com covers platform.twitter.com plus its other subdomains.

On Windows, add string values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLBlocklist. Name 1 is x.com. Name 2 is twitter.com. On macOS, deliver the same policy with a configuration profile for com.google.Chrome. On Linux, put a JSON file in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/:

The hosts file stops those names from resolving for every browser on that computer. It has no schedule, no time limit, and no wildcards, so each name needs its own line. On Windows, edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad opened as administrator. On macOS and Linux, edit /etc/hosts with sudo.

Block x.com and twitter.com in the router's parental controls or with a filtering DNS service. Every device on that Wi-Fi is covered, including the X app, and some routers can schedule the block. Mobile data is not. Chrome's Use secure DNS setting (Settings, Privacy and security, Security) or a VPN can bypass the router. Point secure DNS at the same provider, or turn it off. If the filter has a per-service toggle, test x.com.