Twain — News app to escape your filter bubbles & discover new stuff

“ Hey everyone! This is Miran, from Twain. Our basic idea was to create a better way to read your news - even before fake news and filter bubbles became a huge public issue, we felt that social platforms were not the best way to discover new authors, topics, new sources. Social media's value propisition is to give you more content similar to the content you've already engaged with - which means that a Salon reader is much less likely to bump into Breitbart, and vice-versa. With Twain, that's both more likely, and more desirable. We don't do any kind of personalization - we're simply trying to recognize what's trending in the world right now. We launched back in April, and we've spent the last few months improving our algorithms and eliminating (admittedly, numerous) errors and issues. :) We now feel ready to present Twain to the world, and are eager to hear your comments and feedback. ”
– Miran Pavic

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