Maintained against today's X
Web Reactions ships continuously, and its site adapters are small and bundled with the extension, so an X markup change becomes a focused update rather than a dead project. X posts and photos are supported now.
Emoji Reactions in Twitter alternative
Emoji Reactions in Twitter hasn't shipped an update since March 2022 — before Twitter even became X. Web Reactions is the maintained, open-source way to get emoji reactions on X posts today.
Why people go looking for one
The extension's Chrome Web Store card tells the story on its own. The last release is dated March 2022, and X has been through several UI overhauls and a rebrand since — a DOM-touching extension frozen that long is living on borrowed time. The card also discloses handling authentication information, and the code is closed source.
One more structural limit: its reactions are visible only to other users of the same extension, and the identity model behind them is not documented. The count you see is really "people with this exact plugin who happened to pass by".
What you get instead
Counts that mean people
Reactions are aggregated globally and each one belongs to a verified account — one email, hashed irreversibly, one current reaction per post. The same person on three browsers counts once, not three times.
Not just X
The same picker and the same counts work on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, YouTube, GitHub, GitLab, and Amazon, with more sites on the roadmap.
Open source, no platform credentials
Web Reactions never touches your X login — it has no reason to. The extension is GPL-3 on GitHub, so "what does it actually do on my page" is answerable by reading the code.
Switching takes about a minute
Remove the old extension, install Web Reactions for Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, and confirm a one-time email code the first time you react. That's the entire migration.
Is it the right alternative for you?
Choose Web Reactions if you want emoji reactions on X that still work next year, count verified people, and come with readable source.
Honestly, we couldn't construct a case for staying: the original extension is Chrome-only, closed source, and four years stale. If one exists, it isn't visible from the public listing.
The full table is in Web Reactions vs Emoji Reactions in Twitter.
Sources and fair play
- Emoji Reactions in Twitter Chrome Web Store — listing. The March 2022 release date, the same-extension visibility wording, and the authentication-information disclosure come from that public card.
- Web Reactions claims are documented in the privacy policy, the counts page, and the public repository.
- We're not affiliated with the extension or its author. We compare publicly disclosed properties only.