Ever wondered how particular industry luminaries experience Twitter? Well, wonder no more. A new service named
Twtroulette lets anyone obverse the preferred
Twitter streams of industry leaders, influencers, and the like. Angel investor Shervin Pishevar collaborated with 15 year-old iTunes Instant creator Stephen Ou to create Twtroulette.com in about a
week, according to
TechCrunch. Pishevar was reportedly "intrigued by the experience of viewing
a friend's Twitter timeline." Non-luminaries can volunteer their own timelines by adding themselves to the directory. "And, like Chatroulette, there's a random function so one can shuffle through
profiles if they're feeling lucky," notes TechCrunch. Twitter used to offer a very similar feature, named "With Friends," which actually wasn't very popular with users. Still, according to Pishevar:
"I had a friend who had it login into his account, so I could see it ... I was fascinated. I was seeing a view of the world curated by someone else that I couldn't see anywhere else."
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