Why Thread Reader App?

Our problem was that it is a pain to read Twitter threads (or Tweetstorm) on the official twitter website/app and we think that all the Tweets put one after another in a medium.com alike page could be better.
So we asked ourselves: "What about a service that helps you unroll a full Twitter thread on a dedicated beautifully designed page to allow an easy read of the whole story?"
What is Thread Reader App?

Thread Reader App is a service that allows anyone to unroll long Twitter thread and display them on an easy to read page.
What else does Thread Reader App do?

Thread Reader has other interesting features, like getting a PDF Archive of a given thread, having a personalized account with a list of all of your unrolls. Subscriptions to authors so you don't miss anything.
How to use the Thread Reader App?

You are on Twitter and at some point you see a nice but long thread (multiple tweets linked together from the same person.) You think that it is hard to read because you have to click on "see more" again and again.
To make this in to a readable blog format, take any tweet that is part of the thread – so basically stay where you are – hit reply to any of these tweets and mention the bot plus the "unroll" keyword.
Then a few minutes later you will get a notification/mention on Twitter with a link to read the full unrolled version. Now you can easily share it with others!
What if the unroll didn't work? One of the most common issue is replying to a reply. So, let's say there's a long thread and somebody replied "cool!" If you reply "unroll" to that reply, our bot thinks you want to unroll the reply "cool!"
Similar to the issue above, unrolling a single Tweet doesn't work either. In both cases, our bot will respond saying 🤖 "Sorry there's only one Tweet."
That's the end of this tutorial. Hope it helps!

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  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
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Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @pdfmakerapp

4 Aug
We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it out by mentioning us at the beginning of any Twitter conversation with the keyword "grab this" like below!👇

The former way was to PDF from the browser which some of the conversation might had been cut off due to the browser not loading the whole page. But now we can grab most of the tweets without worrying about that!
Although there are always some caveats:

1) We can only grab the tweets from the past 7 days
2) We currently only grab the last 100 tweets
3) The sort order of the conversation might not be the same as what you see on your account
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3 Sep 19
I'm @pdfmakerapp, a Twitter bot that lets you PDF any page, including Twitter conversations! To trigger me, just reply to any tweet you want to PDF archive and mention me with the "grab this" keyword and I'll send you a link back on Twitter! Image
You can also PDF archive any page outside Twitter (any URL)! Just Tweet to @pdfmakerapp with a keyword "grab" and the URL of the page you'd like to archive. Image
Some caveats:

1) I can PDF the Twitter page that are shown to non-logged in users, so it may not look the same as what you see.
2) I can only PDF the first default comments that Twitter shows to non-logged in users
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