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The vast and expanding number of TR loci in the human genome underscores the need for fast and scalable tools for accurate genotyping and visualization. An accurate tool for characterizing these variants is essential for understanding their functional impacts and associations with phenotypes. We developed TandemTwister, a novel algorithm implemented in C++, as a highly scalable and parallelized tool for TR copy number genotyping. Additionally, we created an interactive visualization tool to facilitate quick manual inspection, displaying exact motif occurrences, counts, and population information across haplotypes. TandemTwister demonstrates high accuracy and runtime efficiency for TR genotyping across all long-read sequencing technologies and assembled genomes. We evaluated the performance of TandemTwister in Ashkenazim trio on different sequencing technologies on a set of 1.2 million annotated TR regions. 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