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Twee-Q: The thought provoking experiment lifting the lid on your Twitter gender bias...
How sexist are your tweets?
Justin Bieber, Barack Obama and Harry Styles have all been found guilty of favouring their own sex on Twitter, according to a new tool created to measure gender bias on the social network.
Twee-q.com trawls through a users’ 100 most recent re-Tweets and measures the amount of times a user has re-posted comments from men and women, giving people a ‘Twitter Equality Quotient’ score out of 10.
The lower the score, the bigger the person’s gender bias.
Bieber, who has 38m followers, has re-Tweeted 72% men and 28% women, giving him a Twee-Q rating of 3.8, while Barack Obama, who has 31m followers, has re-Tweeted 87% men and 13% women, giving him the low score of 1.6.
Harry Styles has scored a far more favourable Twee-Q of 7.8, but the comments he has chosen to re-Tweet are still in favour of his own sex, as 56% of his re-posted Tweets are from men.
Justin Bieber, Barack Obama and Harry Styles have all been found guilty of favouring their own sex on Twitter, according to a new tool created to measure gender bias on the social network.
Twee-q.com trawls through a users’ 100 most recent re-Tweets and measures the amount of times a user has re-posted comments from men and women, giving people a ‘Twitter Equality Quotient’ score out of 10.
The lower the score, the bigger the person’s gender bias.
Bieber, who has 38m followers, has re-Tweeted 72% men and 28% women, giving him a Twee-Q rating of 3.8, while Barack Obama, who has 31m followers, has re-Tweeted 87% men and 13% women, giving him the low score of 1.6.
Harry Styles has scored a far more favourable Twee-Q of 7.8, but the comments he has chosen to re-Tweet are still in favour of his own sex, as 56% of his re-posted Tweets are from men.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/tweeq-the-thought-provoking-experiment-lifting-the-lid-on-your-twitter-gender-bias-8612977.html