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