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Quantifying the filter bubble

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Curated: 20/08/2014 from digiday.com/platforms/facbeook-twitter-ferguson/
Quantifying the filter bubble

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"relying too heavily on Facebook’s algorithmic content streams can result in de facto censorship. Readers are deprived a say in what they get to see, whereas anything goes on Twitter." Puts some numbers to the opacity of the filter bubble experienced by Facebook users in comparison with Twitter users, by comparing coverage of #Ferguson and 'Ice Bucket Challenge'. "there were more tweets (3.6 million) about Ferguson in eight days than there were Facebook referrals to Ferguson stories over 10... Twitter’s number of unique U.S. visitors in July was 121 million to Facebook’s 203 million" - Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson - Digiday

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