{"id":1079,"date":"2021-04-08T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/a-room-with-a-view-the-twitter-account-that-spent-a-year-staring-into-peoples-homes\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:27:16","slug":"a-room-with-a-view-the-twitter-account-that-spent-a-year-staring-into-peoples-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/a-room-with-a-view-the-twitter-account-that-spent-a-year-staring-into-peoples-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people\u2019s homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n

With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u201cZoom room\u201d is nicer than most. So when Room Rater \u2013 a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures \u2013 gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: \u201cI\u2019ll keep striving for that highest, hardest glass ceiling, the elusive 10\/10,\u201d she tweeted at the account.<\/p>\n

Judging the backgrounds on video calls has been the armchair sport of the past year. As we doomscrolled through bleak statistics online, it was cheering to see shots of Meryl Streep\u2019s<\/a> sterile empty shelves or the copies of Fahrenheit 451 and The Twits awkwardly propped up behind Boris Johnson<\/a> at a school in Leicestershire. Room Rater just happened to screengrab these moments. Scrolling through the posts a year after it launched in April 2020, these images are emblematic of just how quickly coronavirus forced all of us inside and online.<\/p>\n

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\nAs 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
\nWith its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u201cZoom room\u201d is nicer than most. So when Room Rater \u2013 a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures \u2013 gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: \u201cI\u2019ll keep striving for that highest, hardest glass ceiling, the elusive 10\/10,\u201d she tweeted at the account.
\nJudging the backgrounds on video calls has been the armchair sport of the past year. As we doomscrolled through bleak statistics online, it was cheering to see shots of Meryl Streep\u2019s sterile empty shelves or the copies of Fahrenheit 451 and The Twits awkwardly propped up behind Boris Johnson at a school in Leicestershire. Room Rater just happened to screengrab these moments. Scrolling through the posts a year after it launched in April 2020, these images are emblematic of just how quickly coronavirus forced all of us inside and online. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s \u201cZoom room\u201d is nicer than most. So when Room Rater \u2013 a …<\/p>\n

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