A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes

A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes

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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/apr/08/a-room-with-a-view-the-twitter-account-that-spent-a-year-staring-into-peoples-homes

As the pandemic forced us inside and online, Room Rater was one Twitter account giving doomscrollers a well-needed levity break. A year on, co-founder Claude Taylor explains how he plans to keep going

With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: “I’ll keep striving for that highest, hardest glass ceiling, the elusive 10/10,” she tweeted at the account.

A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes

Apr 8, 2021, 11:48am UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/apr/08/a-room-with-a-view-the-twitter-account-that-spent-a-year-staring-into-peoples-homes > As the pandemic forced us inside and online, Room Rater was one Twitter account giving doomscrollers a well-needed levity break. A year on, co-founder Claude Taylor explains how he plans to keep going > With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: “I’ll keep striving for that highest, hardest glass ceiling, the elusive 10/10,” she tweeted at the account.