Rikcat Industries

In that last couple of months I’ve been fooling around with the Twitter API. Well, at least when it hasn’t been down or functionality seriously restricted. I created the Critkir.com site in the process of the experiments. It’s really not that sophisticated or really that useful. It was purely a learning endeavor and very rough around the edges.

The idea of Critikr is that twitter users would be able to send @critikr replies with random criticisms, be them neutral, positive or negative. The sentiment is added by the use of an emoticon that are categorized by checking the the sentiment in the twitter text against a regular expression.

So go take a look, would love feedback and ideas to make the site more useful and fun.

What’s Twitter? A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

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