fflick
fflick was a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films based on information collected on Twitter. fflick was launched in August 2010 by Kurt Wilms and three other former Digg employees.[1] It was acquired by Google in January 2011 and discontinued.[2]
Type of site | Movie Reviews |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | fflick |
| Registration | Not Required |
| Launched | August 2010 |
| Current status | Offline (acquired by Google) |
Similar to how Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic aggregates movie reviews of new releases, fflick gathered tweets about a particular film in one place.[3] The site categorized tweets into positive or negative reactions.[4] It also allowed users to buy movie tickets, add certain films to their Netflix queues, and retweet other's tweets.[5] You can also check out what certain “influential” users of Twitter think of certain films — a distinction that's made by comparing the number of one's followers versus the number of people they follow.[6]
References
- Kincaid, Jason (2010-08-03). "fflick's Sentiment Engine Turns Twitter Into A Crowdsourced Movie Critic". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
- archive.org records
- Kung, Michelle (2010-08-10). "Fflick Puts Movie Tweets in One Place". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- Nosowitz, Dan (2010-08-03). "Fflick Tracks Movie Buzz Among Your Twitter Friends (Hope They Have Good Taste!)". Fast Company. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
- Yu, Justin (2010-10-12). "The 404 685: Where we get the Fflick outta here (podcast)". CNET. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- Barna, Ben (2010-08-05). "Fflick: When Rotten Tomatoes Hooked Up with Twitter". Black Book. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
