Blippr Is Twitter For Micro-Reviews

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6 points·markbao··9 comments

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1137766258&chan...

Damn.

Blippr is executed much better, though. Interesting to see where I was last year.

Twitter is twitter for Micro-anything

It's a decent TechCrunch headline. The idea isn't to be realistic or accurate. It's to portray a startup. And if you take a review site and mix it with Twitter, this is what you would get.

My point is that you can make a twitter bot to take microreviews for a given topic very easily, and people are already on twitter. e.g.

@blippr i find using the hooks in twitter to be the easiest way to produce a 140 character review. Already sufficient network effects FTL

I knocked something up along those iines a few months ago: http://tweviews.com

Perfect! Though to be fair, a categorized review site wouldn't need to spend characters on @username and specifying the topic.

Seriously, how can someone possibly review Children of Men in less than 160 chars???

http://www.blippr.com/movies/861-Children-of-Men - 59 reviews give pretty good summury of what to expect.

Pretty easily.

The idea is to give a feel for what you feel about it and why. 160 characters is easily enough to do that. And you can convey a lot of emotion in the meantime:

http://www.blippr.com/movies/5182-Across-the-Universe/blips/...

If I'm looking to see if I'll like a movie or not, a review like that is perfect.

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