This tool judges your Twitter for subconscious gender bias

This tool judges your Twitter for subconscious gender bias

5 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/04/02/this-tool-judges-your-twitter-for-subconscious-gender-bias/

It probably won’t come as too much of a surprise that tech leaders, a notoriously male group,  follow mostly men on Twitter — it wasn’t until 2016 when Elon Musk followed a woman. While we should be mindful that social media presents a warped view of the world, for many people in the tech industry, their Twitter timelines reflect their reality — one that is predominantly male.

Yesterday, Matt Steinglass, Europe Correspondent at The Economist, tweeted about the gender ratio of his Twitter following and followers, admitting there was a huge gap between men and women appearing on his timeline, which he found using the analytics site, Proporti.onl.