Ask HN: Any thoughts on our site Tweetflix.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741505

by lp456 • 17 years ago

4 3 17 years ago

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So after about 4 months of hacking away our little web app is ready for some much needed HN dissection.

Any and all thoughts welcome and encouraged. http://www.tweetflix.com

mgrouchy• 17 years ago

Clickable http://www.tweetflix.com .

IMO I think this is neat, but that being said, I don't know if I would actually use your service. I think maybe I am distrustful of the review algorithm. I looked at the reviews for "Orphan" and it had "reviews" like

"gah. boredom. havent tweeted in a while. no school more yay. watching orphan double yay :d"

and "excited to see orphan tonight! :d" and "@questlove some teens brought not one but two babies to see orphan. i got mgmt to escort out. enough is enough."

none of which are actually reviews, so how do you use data from that to tell me whether I would like it?

Maybe you are not using those to calculate your result, but if you are not, why show it in the "reviews" section.

I'm not trying to be overly critical, I like the idea, I think the site itself looks great, but I think the implementation might need some work if its going to be useful.

lp456• 17 years ago

Excellent Points!

And actually this is where we are having a little bit of difficulty.In that we are actually excluding many tweets, like the ones above. Out of 9.1 million total tweets on Tweetflix.com we are actually only counting 30% towards the approval rating and the rest are more of the "pulse on the movie".

Does it make more sense to split them out into "chatter" and "reviews"?

Thanks for the once over, very helpful! Also as far as the design goes, have to thank @kurtwojda for the time put in!

bgnm2000• 17 years ago

Very cool site!

Ask HN: Any thoughts on our site Tweetflix.com

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