A serendipity engine on the Twitter sidebar.

Latest Version

Version
0.4.9
Update
February 20, 2022
Size
437KiB
Developer
Category
Users
752
Rating
4.76471 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
UnlimitedStorage
WebRequest
Https://api.twitter.com/
*://*.twitter.com/*
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ThreadHelper Extension

ThreadHelper for Twitter™: More recall, less tabs.


ThreadHelper is the Twitter extension that finds the tweets you need.


ThreadHelper augments your Twitter experience by ambiently, automatically and instantly, finding the tweets you need.

How?

🌟 Instantaneous Full-text Search

ThreadHelper substitutes Twitter stock search bar with its own interface and search algorithm. As you type a new tweet it will, automatically and instantly, comb through yout tweets to find the ones most relevant to what you want to talk about at the moment, and present them to you on the sidebar widget.

⚙️ Full search customization

The algorithm is fully controlled by you. It can search over any combination of your past tweets, retweets, bookmarks, and replies. Maybe you’d like to include the tweets of your alts in those searches. Or maybe not. That’s also under your control.

🎮 Complete Control

Interact with sidebar tweets like with any other: reply, retweet, quote-tweet, and like, all directly from the side bar. You can copy and paste their url onto the tweet you’re currently composing to quote-tweet it, all without ever having to open a new tab.

💎 Search directly from the sidebar

ThreadHelper makes it that never need to open a new Twitter tab again, making your experience smoother than ever before. ThreadHelper shines when you don’t even know which tweet you need and it manages to find exactly that one.

However, sometimes, you do know what tweet you’re looking for. For those times you can search the whole of Twitter, directly from the ThreadHelper sidebar. You can interact with those search results the way you can interact with any tweet, never having to open a new tab, and never having to leave the page you’re on.

⌨️ Search commands

Because ThreadHelpers search bar results come from Twitter’s API, you can use all Twitter API search commands, directly on the sidebar, just as you could if you were using Twitter’s native search.

🛳 Smoother experience

If you open a tweet, TH will show you all of its quote tweets, sorted by popularity. This way you don’t need to navigate away.

🎯 Contextual navigation

Twitter can be a bit of a maze sometimes. To help with that, whenever you open a tweet, ThreadHelper automatically searches and presents tweets that are related to the one you’re seeing at the moment, allowing you to better contextualize it, avoiding context collapse.

👾 Serendipity engine

Sometimes the timeline is boring and you just wanna see new stuff. ThreadHelper has a ‘shuffle tweets’ toggle which, if selected, will make it so that by default ThreadHelper shows you a random selection of tweets. This way you can have two timelines for the space of one. (You can also set it off so that it doesn’t do that, if you find one timeline to be more than enough.)

Your data, safe 🕵️‍♀️

All ThreadHelper does is run searches in your browser. It never uploads any of your information anywhere besides Twitter. As the creators of this extension, we never see or receive any of your data. ThreadHelper also prompts you to download an archive of your data on your local machine, so that the data you’ve produced on Twitter stays yours forever.

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This extension is a third-party product and is not officially created by, related to, or endorsed by Twitter™.
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install ThreadHelper extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install ThreadHelper extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install ThreadHelper extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install ThreadHelper extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download ThreadHelper extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a ThreadHelper extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the ThreadHelper Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the ThreadHelper extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the ThreadHelper extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for ThreadHelper extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the ThreadHelper extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download ThreadHelper extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install ThreadHelper extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the ThreadHelper extension file

Select and download the ThreadHelper extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the ThreadHelper extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your ThreadHelper extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the ThreadHelper extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install ThreadHelper extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Phil Filippak (ID: 000000d4a6227fa9) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/31/2021 ThreadHelper totally rocks. To cite my own tweet, "it feels like a shortcut to a couple of extra dimensions. I'm super powerful" which is absolutely true.

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Emerson Spartz (ID: 0000001f23da6b5c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/25/2021 I only use a handful of Chrome apps and this is one of them. It's definitely had an impact on how I use Twitter!

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Cameron Blandford (ID: 0000009bf33bca3d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/21/2020 Maybe the coolest feature I've seen in chrome extension to date.

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Lucca Hellriegel (ID: 00000076afdaf0b2) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/12/2020 Fast, fluid search of all my relevant tweets makes it easy to connect my current thinking to my past ideas. If you want to use twitter for threading, then this is invaluable.

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Rishad Haque (ID: 000000852eca547f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/10/2020 been using it for a while now, perfect for how I use Twitter