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It's somewhat anecdotal but in my experience, Twitter search can be quite filter bubbly. I've had this recording sitting around in my YouTube account which ill

It's somewhat anecdotal but in my experience, Twitter search can be quite filter bubbly. I've had this recording sitting around in my YouTube account which illustrates an example of this: CES 2015 which was around the time of the shit show known as Gamergate. The event aside, it was interesting to understand how sides were inflamed based on what they were seeing thanks to Twitter effectively amplifying similar opinions, creating an echo chamber. Here's a link to the recording: https://youtu.be/yoCcKYJ7hDI https://youtu.be/yoCcKYJ7hDI On the left is an account that was heavily skewed on purpose, towards the more conservative group while on the right is what a regular, unlogged in user would see. A regular user would have no idea of such an event going on while the user on the left would think that this event was engulfing the planet based on the sheer amount of noise being generated. For users on the left, it would be near impossible to penetrate the noise, based on retweets and likes, short of a tweet being passed around for users to jeer at. A literal bubble in that sense. The sad part is that a great number of people from both sides seemingly had a lot in common without realising it. Unfortunately they had no visibility of the "others" short of going out of their way to meet people and talk with them one on one. As we all know, it's easier to just label a foreign group and pretend we're objectively right. Anyway, that's just my experience with filter bubbles anyway. Hopefully you found it interesting.

kochikame 8y ago
Your comment put me in mind of the "get Pao out" hate campaign at Reddit a few years back. At its peak, its most incendiary, bile-spewing peak, if you were not looking at the standard "all" front page you would have had no idea it was even happening at all. With "all" as your default page, it was literally full of it, maybe your top two pages just entirely anti-Pao memes etc. The difference was so stark it was hard to believe I was even using the same Reddit as these people
- cableshaft 8y ago
  I miss most Reddit garbage now that I no longer go to the front page. I mainly stick to a few subreddits now, like r/boardgames, and the moderators actively keep that stuff out since it has nothing to do with the subject. I think I saw a little of the Pao stuff back then, but I think I saw it from other sites, like Kotaku.
avar 8y ago
> A regular user would have no idea of such an event going on[...] The account on the right still had several "#GamerGate" tweets, including one from Milo Yiannopoulos who was involved enough to be covered in the Wikipedia article about it[1]. It seemed to me the main difference in the logged-in & logged-out account in that video is that the logged-out one is getting press release content, perhaps the logged-in account wasn't responsive to that according to Twitter's algorithms? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

kochikame 8y ago

Your comment put me in mind of the "get Pao out" hate campaign at Reddit a few years back. At its peak, its most incendiary, bile-spewing peak, if you were not looking at the standard "all" front page you would have had no idea it was even happening at all. With "all" as your default page, it was literally full of it, maybe your top two pages just entirely anti-Pao memes etc. The difference was so stark it was hard to believe I was even using the same Reddit as these people

cableshaft 8y ago
I miss most Reddit garbage now that I no longer go to the front page. I mainly stick to a few subreddits now, like r/boardgames, and the moderators actively keep that stuff out since it has nothing to do with the subject. I think I saw a little of the Pao stuff back then, but I think I saw it from other sites, like Kotaku.

avar 8y ago

> A regular user would have no idea of such an event going on[...] The account on the right still had several "#GamerGate" tweets, including one from Milo Yiannopoulos who was involved enough to be covered in the Wikipedia article about it[1]. It seemed to me the main difference in the logged-in & logged-out account in that video is that the logged-out one is getting press release content, perhaps the logged-in account wasn't responsive to that according to Twitter's algorithms? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy