I implemented a similar idea a few weeks ago and called it http://www.tweviews.com I like your implementation: the RSS feed and the grouping of items being rated into the Hot Stuff category are both cool.
My set-up is similar: reply tweets sent to @tweviews However, I send them on as normal tweets to the tweviews Twitter account. This means that if people want tweviews, they can just follow the Twitter account.
Content-wise, I was shooting for a different slant: I also have a cron-job set up that pulls in the reply tweets, but I moderate them and only send on the good ones.
I'm still tweaking the format of the tweviews. Currently, it is "@tweviews thing, artist ... review" I display the latest five tweets in a sidebar on my blog (link in my profile) and automatically link the "thing, artist" part up to a Google search.
Anyway, in summary, I really like Twitterate. Nice job.
Moderation,reposting to Twitter, and linking are interesting ideas -- I hope you don't mind if I take them as suggestions and potentially implement them down the road.
What language/framework did you use to build tweviews?
I haven't got much time to work on Tweviews at the moment - I did it as a little diversionary side-project-burst-of-creation thing. My main focus at the moment is my start-up.
I also used Ruby/Rails. I find projects like this to be both ideally suited to, and hampered by, the use of RoR. They're nice and quick to code, but setting up the hosting environment is a time-consuming bore.
My set-up is similar: reply tweets sent to @tweviews However, I send them on as normal tweets to the tweviews Twitter account. This means that if people want tweviews, they can just follow the Twitter account.
Content-wise, I was shooting for a different slant: I also have a cron-job set up that pulls in the reply tweets, but I moderate them and only send on the good ones.
I'm still tweaking the format of the tweviews. Currently, it is "@tweviews thing, artist ... review" I display the latest five tweets in a sidebar on my blog (link in my profile) and automatically link the "thing, artist" part up to a Google search.
Anyway, in summary, I really like Twitterate. Nice job.