Show HN: X-Ray – Filter your X (Twitter) timeline by country
batudotpy Sunday, February 22, 2026
I built a Chrome extension that lets you filter tweets by country.
X recently added "Account based in [Country]" to profiles, so the location data is publicly available — X-Ray uses it
to show location badges on every tweet and lets you blur or block tweets from selected countries.
There's no native way to do this on X yet (though they're reportedly building one). So I built it.
Tech: Chrome Extension (Manifest V3), Node.js backend, PostgreSQL. The extension intercepts X's GraphQL API responses
to extract location data, caches it to avoid rate limits.
It's free, 170+ countries, 9 languages.
Happy to answer technical questions.
Summary
X-Ray Block Tweets by Real People is a Chrome extension that allows users to block tweets from real people, while still viewing other content on Twitter. This can be useful for users who want to curate their Twitter experience and avoid certain accounts or types of posts.
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