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Show HN: 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 of the entire discourse in the world than your local filter bubble.
He comes in two flavors:
@rand_o_card is the US version.
@rand_o_card_uk is the UK version.
I wrote a bit more about why I'm doing this and why I think it's a problem over on my blog - there's a link to that and to the two Twitter accounts above in a comment below.
Have a look and let me know what you think!
- thenomad 11y agoURLs: https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card - US version https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card_uk https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card_uk - UK version http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble-new-twitter-app-thing/ http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble... - more explanation of what a filter bubble is and why you might care.