What you want is api access and a decent client (Tweetbot, Tweetdeck).

My client does exactly this (no ads, feed in order) and I can’t believe I have this for free already while others can’t even pay for it.

Exactly. Been using Tweetbot for years (a decade?). Never seen ads. Timeline is literally a “time line”. And nothing shows up that I don’t want to see like promoted tweets, tweets from people I don’t follow, or trends.

Even has some awesome features on top of that like muting (people or hashtags). They’re only limited by Twitter’s throttled API at this point. However, literally the day that Twitter opened up viewing tweet likes via the API, Tweetbot had updated their app to support it.

They switched to a subscription model with Tweetbot 6. And while I’m generally not a fan of subscriptions, I figured $6 per YEAR for an app that I use every day and have for nearly a decade is totally worth it to support the devs.

Curious, what's your client? I'm interested in that.

Tweetbot (although I realize they may have started charging so it’s not actually free.)

I loved that app when I had an iPhone, I had Tweetbot 4 (I think) and I couldn't use Twitter without it. Thanks!

I once wrote about how you can achieve something similar with uBlock Origin: https://schleiss.io/fixing-twitter-design-with-extension The post was from 2018 so I don't know if the css classes are still valid, also I messed up the images after an update, but I hope you get the gist.

Apart from the last one, and retweets are low-effort so they're hidden by default too:

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

Same here, with such an offering I'd find a subscription attractive. But then again I'd also be more willing to subscribe in general if Twitter didn't try to sabotage my experience and timeline at every step already in the first place.

The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."