Dânesh Zaki

I was impressed by the concept of micro-reviews: short reviews written as tweets (twitter messages) in 140 characters or less. After seeing them in action at the MicroReviews site, I decided to try and implement something similar just for fun. The idea was simple -

For reviewers:

1. Write reviews as tweets in the following format @ureview itemReviewed; comments; rating (out of 5)
2. Send them as replies to a twitter ID for e.g. @ureview
   

For the micro-reviews site:

1. Create a twitter ID for e.g. ureview where all microreviews would be received as replies
2. Use the Twitter API - I used JTwitter to get the replies for the day
3. Parse the format and create text posts using the TumbleJ API
4. The program should be running constantly looking out for new micro-reviews
5. That’s it! A Twitter-Tumblr mashup that seeks and displays microreviews is ready!

See this in action at NanoReviews. Get the code for the mashup here.