Rando, a Simple Tool to Help Fight Your Filter Bubble
I've been getting very concerned by the "Filter Bubble" effect in the recent past, so I created a quick tool to fight it - for Twitter users, at least. "Rando Cardrissian" is a Twitter bot which selects headlines from a range of sources across the political spectrum, from Tea Party to Green. I'm intending to extend him to sample other controversial topics in the future too. Then, every 15 minutes he Tweets one of those headlines without attributing its source. A URL is included, but it's obfuscated. The intention is to create a "white noise" on your Twitter feed that is more representative…
Rando, a Simple Tool to Help Fight Your Filter Bubble launched on May 21, 2015 with 7 votes, #1,597 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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I've been getting very concerned by the "Filter Bubble" effect in the recent past, so I created a quick tool to fight it - for Twitter users, at least. "Rando Cardrissian" is a Twitter bot which selects headlines from a range of sources across the political spectrum, from Tea Party to Green. I'm intending to extend…
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