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Avneesh Kohli@avneeshk91 · pm @ foursquare, working on swarm
Hi there! I've always felt that Twitter was an incredible platform for the diffusion of ideas. But I've also noticed that often, certain ideas and content are spread based on someone having thousands of followers, or because a tweet has already gone viral. I created Blind Twitter so I could judge tweets on the quality of their content, and not be influence… See more
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Cody Cowan@codymcowan · cofounder, fairtread
@avneeshk91 Such a big fan of this idea. wish I could use it on mobile/in tweetdeck. So much of how people judge content is hidden behind bias and reputation, this is such a clever way of testing your implicit biases.
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Ian Mikutel@ianmikutel · PM Lead, Microsoft OneNote
@avneeshk91 Very much like the spirit of the idea here. Democratization of content is a healthy thing. One question I'm curious if you thought about is the fact that the content we see is still biased in that it mostly comes from those we've chosen to follow. Is that an acceptable bias in your opinion? I wonder if it'd be interesting to experiment changing t… See more
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Avneesh Kohli@avneeshk91 · pm @ foursquare, working on swarm
@ianmikutel good point, and definitely something I thought about. There is absolutely a pre-selection bias based on who you choose to follow, but I felt the issue of how users engage differently with the set of people they explicitly chose to follow was something worth tackling on its own. In theory, you follow a person with the intention of wanting to see t… See more
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Gabriela Hromis@ghromis · WisePeach.com
@avneeshk91 This is awesome! Reminds me of research Duncan Watts has done over a decade ago. Here is more about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/0... Basically, you could do that, only with tweets!
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