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Purple 2.0

Interactive election updates on Messenger

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Rebecca Harris
@rebeccajharris · Cofounder, Purple
David and I are both nerdy, curious people and still found it a pain to keep up with deluge of content/news, actually understand what it means, and why it matters. That was scary to us for the future of democracy, it should not be this difficult! We built Purple to create a better informed electorate by making it effortless to stay informed, starting with t… See more

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Rebecca Harris
@rebeccajharris · Cofounder, Purple
David and I are both nerdy, curious people and still found it a pain to keep up with deluge of content/news, actually understand what it means, and why it matters. That was scary to us for the future of democracy, it should not be this difficult! We built Purple to create a better informed electorate by making it effortless to stay informed, starting with t… See more
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
Purple via SMS is dead. @rebeccajharris is switching to Messenger! I'd love to learn more about what she's learned about delivering an interactive #ConvComm service over SMS, and what motivated the shift to Messenger, and how she hopes to take advantage of the platform. I've been a very big Purple fan from way back — and I'm very excited for this new chapt… See more
Brian Donohue
@bthdonohue · CEO, Instapaper
Congrats on the launch @rebebeccajharris and @david_heimann!
Jake Simms
@jake_simms
I gotta give props to the community that's been built around Purple. I hosted a live chat on it and was amazed at the quality of questions and the general tone of all of it. The topic (third party candidates) can and does devolve quickly into a battle of who can ask the smartest question, or shaming, or some other unproductive tone. It never happened on Purp… See more
Jay Kapoor
@jaykapoornyc
Seriously love how intuitive and simple -- but informative it is! Congrats @rebeccajharris and @david_heimann