FlixPulse: Motion picture reviews based on Twitter comments
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Want to know if a movie’s worth checking out? You could read reviews written by people you’ve never met. Or you could ask a friend or two who has already seen the movie. or you could ask a few thousand Twitter users. FlixPulse takes the latter approach.
FlixPulse is sort of like Rotten Tomatoes. But instead of compiling average ratings from dozens of professional motion picture reviews, FlixPulse scans Twitter for mentions of current movies. Then real live human beings look at each tweet and decide whether the comment was good, bad, or indifferent. The result shows up as a percentage on the main page, and if you click on a movie title you can read the actual messages left by Twitter users.
The concept is kind of cool. But since most people probably don’t realize that their remarks are being aggregated, it’s not clear that random Twitter users are providing accurate reviews. Each movie on the front page of FlixPulse has a score well above 50%, which means that either every movie in theaters right now is awesome, or people are more likely to comment on films they liked.
[via Data Mining and The Net Savvy Executive]
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