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Slight tweak to our bottom bar. We are in the process of working on a lot of exciting big things but we are still paying attention to the little details that make your experiences on twitcritics as easy and understandable as possible.
Our careful and considered solution to the bottom bar design was to group items according to who we think will be using them.
General Users:
Home, About, Press, Contact
Developers / Power-users:
Blog, Widget
Business (is self explanatory)
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Here at TwitCritics we believe, “Little things can make a big difference”.
Comments (View)Check it out : http://twitcritics.com/forum/
We are pleased to announce that our very own forums are up and running. Post all your comments, concerns, and suggestions and share your ideas with users of our site. Why not check out our forums today and become one of our very first forum members.
Comments (View)I’m happy to announce the official release of the TwitCritics widgets that you can embed in your site!
We have a movie list widget (which will stay up to date with the newest movies on TC):
You can get your code for the movielist widget at widget.twitcritics.com (you can adjust some parameters to make it fit where you need it to)
And we have a widget for individual movies which will stay up to date with the score for that movie, like this one for Law Abiding Citizen:
You can get the code for the movie score by clicking on ‘embed this on your site’ on the movie’s page!
*edit* sorry I had to use images. This editor is giving me trouble.
Comments (View)Why not join the 116 people that have already added TwitCritics to their Delicious Bookmarks? Give it try today.
Comments (View)TwitCritics is now your one stop movie review shop when looking for movie reviews.
Each movie we review will now link to:
Simply look below the “More” section next to each movie’s poster to find these helpful new movie links. Why not make TwitCritics you first stop for all your movie reviews? If you want a second opinion, we have now made that even easier for you too.
Let us know what you think and what other links you might like to see. :)
Comments (View)As you probably know, we have so far only been adding movies on the day of their theatrical release. This is mostly due to the fact that there are a lot of people talking about movies when they first come out on twitter. In an effort to expand our database, we decided to also add any movies that we aren’t already indexing when they are release on DVD/BluRay. Hopefully there will be an increase in reviews about them when they first come out and we will be able to collect enough tweets.
Today we added:
GI Joe also came out on dvd today but we already have it in our database. It will likely take some time before they start to show up on the site but it will be interesting to see how it works out.
Comments (View)Something that we have been trying to figure out for some time is what is the best time to start tracking a new movie? Most new movies seem to start playing at midnight on the day of their release, but do enough people tweet about them overnight to get a lot of reviews? Or will we end up with a lot of tweets like ‘excited to see movie X tomorrow’ etc?
Until now we have been starting to index them later in the day to give people enough time to go see it and tweet their thoughts but we have been interested to see what would happen if we started collecting tweets at midnight.
Well last night’s global premiere of Michael Jackson’s This Is It was the perfect time to test this out, so we did it. You may have noticed that there are increased inaccuracies in the score for this movie. Almost every tweet about the movie that we have seen has actually been positive, and some of them are more about MJ rather than the movie.
So we just wanted to keep you all posted on what is going on. And even though we have seen some decreased accuracy, we believe our little experiment was a success in that it has shown us some issues that we need to address and given us some more information about the nature of tweets as movies are first coming out.
If anybody has any comments or suggestions or any other feedback we’d really love to hear from you. We are trying to make this an application for all of us :)
Go to Michael Jackson’s This Is It reviews on TwitCritics
Comments (View)Hey everyone!
Thanks for all the support so far. We are currently working on moving our site to a new higher resolution (to 1024x768 from 800x600).
This higher resolution will mean more possibilities and a better reading resolution for our visitors.
We deeply value our visitors and we want to bring our fans the site that they want to see. If you have any suggestions regarding the layout and/or design of TwitCritcs, things you want to see, things you don’t currently like, then please tweet back at us, comment on our blog, or email twitcritics@twitcritics.com with your suggestions.
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The TwitCritics team
Comments (View)So it turns out that there is an issue in the Twitter API that was severely limiting the number of new tweets we were collecting. In the order of < 10 per hour. We were alerted to this when we added Paranormal Activity, which has been trending for weeks, and it took over 24 hours to collect enough reviews to get an overall score. We were able to work around the issue tho. So this means there should start to be (many) more reviews for the movies! :)
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