About Us
TweetBrain is a crowdsourcing service powered by the Twitter user community. It facilitates people to ask questions, get answers, and earn money from answering questions posted with a reward. It also greatly increases your reach in the Twitter community well beyond your followers. Our office is in Mountain View, California, USA.
TweetBrain is the brain child of twitter: @dexin
Besides TweetBrain, DeXin Shi is also involved in a stealth mode cloud computing software startup.
She has co-founded and co-owned a successful web hosting company since 1995. Prior to that, DeXin spent 4 years in Belgium. While there, she studied Development Policies, an one year program sponsored by the United Nation. Her interests in Macro Economics led her to earn a MPA degree from the University of Antwerp. Before going to Belgium, DeXin did undergraduate studies in Economics in Beijing, China. She has a deep interest in the interplays of world politics, economics, and technologies.
DeXin has lived in China, Belgium, Southern California and the Silicon Valley. Her extensive travelling experience in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and US has shaped her business vision and global outlook. DeXin is fluent in Chinese, English and Dutch.
TweetBrain Milestones
TweetBrain is young, but we would like to bring it up properly to be a healthy and dynamic service for the Twitter community. Curious about its progress? Below are the major milestones in the TweetBrain's youthful life so far. Please note, your active usage and suggestions will help it to help you. Go ahead, TweetBrain more!
- Went live on April 7, 2009
- Changed to an "Open Design" on April 11, 2009
- Adopted all top user suggestions (except OAuth, until it's out beta) from TweetBrain User Forum on April 12, 2009
- Search results can be RSS-ed on April 14, 2009
- Improved user Settings for notifications on April 15, 2009
- Top Brains Contest shows all participants on April 15, 2009
- TweetBrain FAQ restructured and enhanced on April 21, 2009
- Notifications made more compact and capable of "deep linking" on April 23, 2009
- A "community patrol" based "Abuse Control System" is live on April 28, 2009
- More compact notifications for both questions and answers on May 21, 2009
How users view TweetBrain
We haven't had the time to even make a press release yet :) But some Tweebrain users have been enthusasically writing and even videoing TweetBrain. Take a look. They are nice!
- TweetBrain - Crowdsourcing for the Twitterati Autom Tagsa (@autom8), April 08, 2009
- Get More Twitter Followers with TweetBrain Jack Humphrey (@bendtheweb), April 08, 2009
- TweetBrain Sarah Queen Browning (@SarahQB), April 8, 2009
- TweetBrain - Get More Twitter Followers Kristine Wirth (@KristineWirth), April 9, 2009
- TweetBrain a great way to ask questions on Twitter...is optimized for that Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer), April 20, 2009
- Dig deep with TweetBrain.com's founder DeXin Grant at 2above.com (@theReviewGuy), May 10, 2009
- Using Twitter for Crowdsourcing Scott Meis (@ScottMeis), May 12, 2009
- TweetBrain - crowdsourcing via Twitter everythingtwitter.com, May 14, 2009
- HOW RELEVANT IS TWITTER? - TweetBrain is mentioned in this "The Economist" blog
- TweetBrain - CrowdSourcing at it Finest Anita Cohen-Williams (@searchguru), May 17, 2009
TweetBrain Meetup
We always enjoy meeting Twitter and TweetBrain users in person. Friendships are good!

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