Tweet Copier

The Problem

I often saved inspiration from Twitter, but selecting and copying a full tweet with a mouse was annoying. Threads were popular at the time, and copying an entire thread made the process even more tedious.

The Motivation

I had never built a Chrome extension. AI tools had become good enough to help, and I was already using Cursor, so I decided to make a small extension that added a copy button directly to Twitter. It would copy one tweet or collect a complete thread in a reusable text format.

Mistakes

I built the extension with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. That worked, but I wish I had used a framework such as Plasmo. The project would have taught me a more maintainable extension workflow instead of only the lowest-level pieces.

Learning

I learned how Chrome extensions are structured, how they interact with an existing website, and how to debug code that runs inside another product's interface. By the end, I knew I could build a useful browser extension with help from AI.

Achievements

I finished and released the code through GitHub. I did not publish Tweet Copier in the Chrome Web Store because it required a developer fee. Looking back, paying the fee may have been worthwhile, especially because I plan to build more extensions.

The project also gave me another repository to maintain properly and a working base I could reuse for future browser-extension ideas.