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"Long-winded music reviews are getting a tune up. SPIN announced on Wednesday that it will be squeezing the majority of its album reviews into 140-character tweets.\nSPIN is pulling most of the reviews out of its print magazine and will be tweeting them instead under the handle @SPINreviews.\nSenior editor Chris Weingarten told Mashable that about 120 of the 140 albums the publication plans to review each month in short form on Twitter. Long-form reviews will be saved for albums SPIN believes are the best and most newsworthy. In total, it plans to cover a total of 1,500 new records this year, all reviewed by its eight in-house editors and a team of a dozen freelancers. \n\"We are completely changing the way we approach reviews,\" Weingarten said. \"Most of our reviews were between 60 and 80 words, but people just want to get information fast and then decide for themselves if they like the music.\"\nWeingarten is no stranger to tweeting album reviews in such few characters \u2013 he\u2019s been doing so for the past few years via @1000timesyes. He tweeted more than 1,000 music reviews in 2009.\n\"The days of wasting people's time with 1,000 words about a record that we don\u2019t even think is good is over,\u201D Weingarten said. \u201CIn addition, there\u2019s something really artistic and poetic about making a review short, simple and to the point.\"\nThe tweet reviews will also be featured on the site, which is currently undergoing a major redesign. Weingarten declined to comment on when it will go live, but promises it will look \"beautiful.\"\nIn 2011, SPIN embraced the Newsstand app on iOS devices, allowing users to get news and reviews from SPIN.com. Called Spin Play \u2013 which costs $1.99 for each issue or $7.99 for an annual subscription \u2013 the app also offers streaming songs and videos. SPIN said that it plans to \"integrate the Twitter feed into the reviews section on the new site\" once the redesign is live.\nDo you think summing up an entire album in just 140 characters will do it justice? Is this the future of publication reviews? Let us know your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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