Twitter’s algorithm is optimized for addiction, not for us. We deserve better. We’re releasing Bouncer today so you can take back control of your feed. Describe what you don't want, and Bouncer removes it. It’s free, doesn’t collect your data, and will be open source soon.

Bouncer is available today as an iPhone app and Chrome extension. Coming soon to platforms beyond Twitter (looking at you, Reddit and LinkedIn 👀). Follow @imbue_ai for updates. iOS App Store: Chrome:

Small open source models are making so much possible; Bouncer uses Qwen3.5-4B. We’re working on a version with local inference. I’m excited for local models to give back control over our info diets and our lives. Thanks @MillanPhilipose @Gnguralnick @DarrenJialmbue for finally solving this problem!

Thanks to @sethlazar @nayafia @Plinz @jasoncrawford @SpencrGreenberg @oh_that_hat @dorothychou @jeremyphoward @percyliang @tylercowen @Julian @michael_nielsen and many others for feedback and encouragement along the way!

Can this exclude all posts from certain regions?

No, it cannot. What are you trying to exclude?

Engagement farming slop, scamming, and general anti-social behavior from third world countries like India, Pakistan and Nigeria where 99% of this behavior comes from which is totally destroying this website.

The best way to do this would be to try filters for those things — try filtering out "engagement farming", "scamming", or other terms and see what you get.

I'll try it out but consider this an important feature request. People would pay a lot of money to remove foreign bad actors from their timelines.

There is no program that can completely remove the slop. But it's not just that, it's the mass reporting of accounts critical of mass immigration, it's the incessant hostile behavior, the delusional gloating etc. But even if some program was able to remove 99% of the above. There is nothing wrong with wanting your social media feed to be comprised of your people, your culture and your interests. I have zero interest in posts about Cricket and you probably have zero interest in posts about Hockey or Baseball. We shouldn't be forced into the same areas of the internet. We should have freedom to associate online.

I love this!!!! Would love to see filter sets too — like being able to swap between a 'work mode' and a 'hobbies mode' depending on my mood would be great.

Agreed, great idea! @Millanphilipose and team have logged this :)

Why make this launch video so technical? you are constraining your ICP to only tech twitter if you made it simpler to understand for normies it would get much more reach also subscribe to SuperX

If the iOS app link isn't working for you, search for "Bouncer: Heal Your Feed"!

the best part of bouncer is the team behind it -- oh and it actually made me use twitter again

So, you're launching this

first 10 min of trying and it's pretty great! p.s. hit a bug where the trash icon is clipped

That is extremely cool

Not just twitter, every social platform is broken. we launched agentic streams to fix it

Manifestation ✨️😊

@anemll this is the product I've been working on. We want to run a 4B model fast enough to keep up with twitter scrolling. Your project has been very helpful and I think we're close to getting bouncer entirely local on iPhone

@SpencrGreenberg Very cool!

From hell's heart, I stab at thee (twitter)

Another day. Another polycule.

@elonmusk we just made your app actually good ur welcome

woah what

Finally a way to fix this site!

woah!! thank you! what a gift to society!

@nikhilville cooked w the video🧑‍🍳🍳

Excellent work, folks.

@Meaningness I love this

It'd be great if filtering slop content was possible (by slop I just mean content with no added value, like: "I'm a vibe-coder, tell me one word that'll afraid me") 🤢

Hmm, that'll be a little harder with these small models. Will you play around with keywords and see what gets rid of that? You could try more creative keywords like "posts with no information". cc @Millanphilipose in case he has more ideas.

@sow4code I would expect that slop is harder to filter but it might be doable if we find some phrases or prompts that work well

Yes I understand, this type of content is clearly harder. The "over-sharing" keyword works very well (in general), the term is simple but I love it lol

@Seraph_Notitia nice, congrats! reminds me of a tool we launched years ago that adds E2EE ontop of Twitter, Reddit etc.

love it!

i mean you guys tried

this is cool lol

So cool!

Glad you feel so — feel free to try it out and let us know any feedback!

Tbf the feedback categories aren't very sensitive to what's annoying about a post - like I wanted to block this because it was mean spirited

@kanjun Yeah that button sometimes doesn't quite get at the problem. Try typing "mean spirited" into the filter box

@kanjun Done :D

@kanjun Yay!

@kanjun We're also going to add a "something else" text box if none of the suggestions are good

@kanjun That'd be great!

only way i'd trust something sitting between me and my feed is open source, so good call. Pretty telling we need browser extensions just to make a timeline usable.

This is amazing. What are your plans now that Nikita is trying to shut you down?

Just tried this! Its still early stages BETA version not accurate please upgrade the LLM use stronger one it filter wrong posts.

Ah yeah, it's very very aggro on crypto keywords, sorry about that. We're working on tuning it right now. If you have an API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, you can go to "Settings" and pick a stronger model.

I have Openrouter models or Gemini on Free tier.

Wow so cool! 😎 Twitter is back.

great launch video !

@banteg they took our blockers and generalized them