TweetWise
AI-powered insights for Twitter threads, without the API costs.
Created on 25th November 2024
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TweetWise
AI-powered insights for Twitter threads, without the API costs.
The problem TweetWise solves
Twitter threads often contain lengthy discussions, unverified claims, and complex conversations that are time-consuming to analyze. While there are existing tools, they typically require expensive API access. TweetWise provides a free, accessible way to analyze Twitter content right in your browser.
Use Cases:
- Quick Thread Summaries: Instead of reading through long Twitter threads, get instant AI-generated summaries with key points
- Fact-Checking Support: Verify claims in tweets without leaving the platform
- Sentiment Analysis: Understand the emotional tone of discussions and debates
- Research & Analysis: Perfect for researchers, journalists, and curious readers who want to analyze Twitter content deeply
- Zero API Costs: Users get powerful Twitter analysis capabilities without paying for expensive API access
Challenges we ran into
- Twitter API Limitations
- Challenge: Initial plan to build a bot using Twitter's API was blocked by the $200/month API cost barrier
- Solution: Pivoted to a browser extension that intercepts Twitter's own API calls, avoiding direct API costs
- Data Scraping Hurdles
- Challenge: Attempted headless browser scraping but hit authentication walls for viewing comments
- Challenge: Twitter's HTML structure proved difficult to parse reliably
- Solution: Discovered and implemented API call interception to capture thread data directly from Twitter's internal requests
- User Experience Design
- Challenge: Needed a non-intrusive way to integrate with Twitter's interface
- Solution: Implemented a collapsible side panel with a chat interface that feels native to the platform
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