Get more insight from Twitter

It made Twitter a true goldmine of ideas and resources. This is exactly how I always imagined how Twitter search should have been built.

This adds a whole new dimension to Twitter surfing. Hard to explain why until you see it surface interesting tweets that you would never otherwise see.

As a researcher, I love using Twitter as a memex: a tool for thinking and making connections between related ideas. I've used it to find so many fascinating people, thoughts, and discussions.

But using Twitter this way has always felt like fighting the natural design of the tool. The Twitter product is trying to get me to refresh the feed, not grow my thoughts. That might make sense for most casual users, but I wanted something more powerful.

So I started building a browser extension to make Twitter a better place to think. It all started out with a lightweight search UI, so that I could seamlessly search through tweets to reference while I was writing new threads, weaving together old ideas with new ones. Then I added a way to see people's best tweets, so I could get more from coming across an interesting user's profile.

I used this extension myself for about 6 months, and after a while I couldn't live without it. Other people started asking me to share it, so I decided to turn it into a product. My hope is to build Twemex into a high-quality tool that makes Twitter a better memex for everyone.

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