MicroRevie.ws: what’s the Twitter community thinking?
Written on April 17, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Every time when I go to a concert, museum, movie or you name it, a bowling alley, I let my Twitter contacts know how it was. At least, the ones that are watching the Twitter timeline. The contacts who aren’t, will never know how I’ve experienced the night off. Well…, @slack, @danielmorrison and @petelbury have now taken care of this ‘problem’.
They’ve built MicroRevie.ws, a service that collects reviews from Twitter and turns them into Microformats. That’s a web-based data formatting approach that seeks to bring structure in web data in order to make it findable. However, we don’t have to worry about the technical side, since MicroRevie.ws automatically takes care of that. All we have to know is that our reviews will get picked up by services like Technorati’s Microformats Search. So other people than our contacts will be able to look up our honest and humble opinions.
How does it work? Start following @hreview and update like this:
@hreview Some Great Band; really exciting but too loud
@hreview and the semicolon are required. The semicolon separates what is being reviewed from the opinion.
That leaves one question though, what’s the use of 140 characters reviews..? I’m sure my friends appreciate a short statement about a movie. But why would you mind the non-argumented opinion of a complete stranger?
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By JR on Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
I like the idea, but the “why?” question keeps coming up with every new Twitter app I come see… It seems to be pretty hard to come up with a useful application for Twitter…
By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
@JR I think people keep creating new Twitter apps for one reason: because it’s possible. Some generate a good buzz, so you might also see it as a personal branding thing for developers…
By tonybls12 on Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
there are so many twitter apps simply because
its such a great platform.but you are right so many of them
seem to server no real or useful porpose.
By mark dyer on May 1, 2008 | Reply
who is the US COMM WS DEVELOPER
By John on May 1, 2008 | Reply
Or people just use it to promote their company?