About Rotten Tweets

What is Rotten Tweets?

Rotten Tweets collects what ordinary people say about movies, TV shows and video games in public — posts on Bluesky, Mastodon and Lemmy, and Steam user reviews — labels each one positive, negative or neutral, and shows the share that is positive. Every reaction on a title page links to the original post, and every page shows how many reactions the score is built on and when it was last updated.

How scores are calculated

Score = positive ÷ (positive + negative). Neutral posts are listed but never move the score; there is no score below 10 opinionated reactions; and a source only counts once 100 of its labels have been hand-checked at 85% accuracy or better. The full method — sources, matching, labelling, the written summaries and how they are checked — is on the methodology page.

Rating tiers

Data sources

• Audience reactions — Bluesky (open API), Mastodon public hashtag timelines, Lemmy search, Steam user reviews
• Critic context — Wikipedia reception sections (CC BY-SA 4.0), shown separately and never scored
• Titles' metadata and posters — TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB), with Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) as fallback; Steam store data for games
• Expert ratings — IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic figures via OMDb, where available

From March to April 2026 this site collected posts from X (Twitter). That collection has stopped; the archived posts are kept for the record and are not used in any score.

Disclaimer

Rotten Tweets is run by indie.io and is not affiliated with Rotten Tomatoes, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, Valve, IMDb, Metacritic, or any studio. indie.io also publishes games; those are marked and scored by the same rules. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Sentiment scores are algorithmically generated and may not perfectly represent public opinion.