Fflick

{{Short description|Defunct film website}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = fflick

| url = {{URL|http://fflick.com}}

| commercial =

| type = Movie Reviews

| language = English

| registration = Not Required

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2010|08}}

| current_status = Offline (acquired by Google)

| revenue =

}}

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.{{cite web

| last = Kincaid

| first = Jason

| title = fflick’s Sentiment Engine Turns Twitter Into A Crowdsourced Movie Critic

| publisher = Techcrunch

| date = 2010-08-03

| url = https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/03/fflick-movie-search-twitter/

| accessdate = 2010-08-03}} It was acquired by Google in January 2011 and discontinued.[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fflick.com archive.org records]

Similar to how Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic aggregates movie reviews of new releases, fflick gathered tweets about a particular film in one place.{{cite web

| last = Kung

| first = Michelle

| title = Fflick Puts Movie Tweets in One Place

| publisher = Wall Street Journal

| date = 2010-08-10

| url = https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/08/10/fflick-puts-movie-tweets-in-one-place/

| accessdate = 2010-08-10}} The site categorized tweets into positive or negative reactions.{{cite web

| last = Nosowitz

| first = Dan

| title = Fflick Tracks Movie Buzz Among Your Twitter Friends (Hope They Have Good Taste!)

| publisher = Fast Company

| date = 2010-08-03

| url = http://www.fastcompany.com/1677513/fflick-tracks-movie-buzz-among-your-twitter-friends-hope-they-have-good-taste

| accessdate = 2010-08-03}} It also allowed users to buy movie tickets, add certain films to their Netflix queues, and retweet other's tweets.{{cite web

| last = Yu

| first = Justin

| title = The 404 685: Where we get the Fflick outta here (podcast)

| publisher = CNET

| date = 2010-10-12

| url = http://www.cnet.com/8301-13952_1-20019341-81.html

| accessdate = 2010-10-12}} 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.{{cite web

|last = Barna

|first = Ben

|title = Fflick: When Rotten Tomatoes Hooked Up with Twitter

|publisher = Black Book

|date = 2010-08-05

|url = http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/fflick-when-rotten-tomatoes-had-sex-with-twitter/21241

|accessdate = 2010-08-05

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100819224350/http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/fflick-when-rotten-tomatoes-had-sex-with-twitter/21241

|archivedate = 2010-08-19

}}