Complications of "BubbleT"

A while back, I tried to bring my father’s idea to life: BubbleT.

The goal is to make the Twitter feed as apolitical as possible. To do this, I worked with Claude Code and Kimi K3 to build a Chrome extension that scans and categorizes all tweets on the timeline. It assesses the political orientation and corresponding “strength” (for example, from center → left → far-left) and then attempts to counteract it (with automated likes, bookmarks, “not interested,” etc.). However, the current process has turned out to be a major problem; the timeline has in fact become – according to the measurement criteria – less political, but there is quite obviously a large discrepancy between what the extension considers a politically balanced timeline and what one personally considers politically balanced.

The current process attempts to maintain a 50/50 distribution between the left and the right. This then results in EXTREMELY radical left-wing and right-wing posts. That’s hardly apolitical or politically balanced. Well, technically it is, but otherwise it isn’t.

With this approach, the extension certainly lives up to its name, “BubbleT”. Political bubbles on the timeline are burst, but I don’t think the current result is the intended goal. In V1.1, I’ll try to remove this behavior from the extension; the ultimate goal is to eventually achieve a truly apolitical timeline (does such a thing even exist?).