The feeds you read are corridors—one room that lets you find many others. Most of the rooms in the building are not worth visiting, but you know a dozen that are good and know some corridors that mostly lead to interesting rooms. You spend most of your time there.
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There are rooms full of books, rooms full of movies. Something weird is going on in the building: you can see other people only in the special “social” rooms. You can’t see other people or interact with them outside of the social rooms.
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There could be many people in the same room, even your friends, but you would never know. You always walk alone in this building. Because there are no maps you can go in circles around some super-interesting room for ages and not learn about it.
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If you could see other people, you would hear that there are many people in a room behind a door and would go check it out. Or your friends may love to hang out in some room. If you knew that, you could ask why they love it so much, ask to show you around.
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And you can’t notice a stranger that enjoys the same rooms that you do. You can’t bump into new people with the same interests and start chatting with them. You are exploring on your own. Walking alone is not fun.
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I am building a browser extension that tries to solve this problem. It is called Ampie. Right now it highlights doors (links) to the rooms that people in your twitter corridor have mentioned at some point, so you would not miss some cool rooms.
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It can also show you which objects in the room you are in people in your twitter corridor have discussed. I am already finding it useful, and the first few fellow explorers are also saying the same thing. Download it here for Chrome:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ampie/ikdgincnppajmpmnhfheflannaiapmlm …
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And here for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ampie/ … (Chrome version works faster for some reason)
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It shows those blue circles near links someone has tweeted in your feed, bold if there were at least four mentions of that link. Click the circle and you will see tweets with that link. Try it!pic.twitter.com/ZwCjfIRCZp
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:( I hope the process to get it back up is quick and painless!
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