A Twitter Site For Critics

Twitter uses are used top conveying their message in 140 characters  or less. Well now Blippr has taken the Twitter concept and applied it to reviews of book, games, music and movies.

No longer do you have to sift through lengthy reviews to find out what someone thought about the Dark Night move. Paring a review down to 160 characters and a rating really forces reviewers to get to the essential appeal or flaw of the movie being reviewed. For instance, do you really need to know anything more about The Dark Night than “Heath Ledger… Man, he was so different than Nicholson. Not cruel and funny, but disturbing and terrifying. A great movie, great story. Can’t miss it.”.

What I like about Blippr is that it will forward your Blipps to Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed (although the fact that it allows 20 characters more than Twitter means that overly-lengthy reviews will be shortened when they are translated into Tweets). In keeping with SMS culture, the four ratings are emoticons: =D, =), =|, or =(.

Also, similar to Twitter you can follow what your friends are Blipping, and update your “media status” of what you are reading, watching, playing, or listening to.