Thunderclap (website)
{{Short description|Former social gathering website}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Thunderclap
| logo = Thunderclap logo.gif
| logo_caption =
| location_city = New York City, New York State, U.S.
| founder = {{Unbulleted list|David Cascino}}
| url = {{URL|http://thunderclap.it}}
| website_type = Crowdspeaking
| launch_date = May, 2012
| current_status = Closed, July, 2018
}}
Thunderclap was a platform that let individuals and companies rally people together to spread a message. The site used a model similar to crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, in that if the campaign did not meet its desired number of supporters in the given time frame, the organizer receives none of the donations. To each campaign there was assigned a url with a short version of Thunderclap domain name ([https://thndr.me thndr.me] or [https://thndr.it thndr.it]) and a unique random 6 alphanumeric path. This was referred to as "crowdspeaking", as Thunderclap and its rival site Daycause use the same terminology.{{cite web|url=https://www.thunderclap.it/howitworks|title=The #1 Crowdspeaking Platform|publisher=Thunderclap|date=2017-10-20|accessdate=2017-10-20|archive-date=2017-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829171730/https://www.thunderclap.it/howitworks|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.daycause.com/p/about|title=Raise awareness, amplify your message... with Daycause, your crowdspeaking platform.|publisher=Daycause|date=2016-09-28|accessdate=2017-10-19|archive-date=2017-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020033100/https://www.daycause.com/p/about|url-status=dead}} Backers are required to copy the original message in tweets or social media posts.{{cite web|last= Wardle |first= Hilary |title= How New 'Crowdspeaking' Site Thunderclap Is Revolutionising Online Awareness Raising |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/hilary-wardle/how-new-crowdspeaking-sit_b_5021877.html |date= 2014-03-25 |accessdate= 2014-07-14 |website= The Huffington Post |edition= United Kingdom}} In August 2018, Facebook revoked Thunderclap's ability to post onto Facebook, making Thunderclap unsustainable to operate. Thunderclap announced that it would be shutting down in September 2018, along with Daycause.{{Cite web|url=https://commaful.com/play/news/thunderclap-the-online-crowd-speaking-platform-i/|title=Thunderclap, the online crowd speaking platform, is shutting down|date=21 August 2018}} The closure came after Facebook changed its terms of service, blocking external apps from posting content.{{cite web|url=https://luminouspr.com/goodbye-thunderclap-how-social-media-storms-closed-the-popular-crowdspeaking-platform/|title=Goodbye, Thunderclap: how social media storms closed the popular crowdspeaking platform|publisher=Luminous PR|date=2018-11-21|accessdate=2018-12-03}}
Overview
Thunderclap was owned by De-De, a New York City-based product development studio, which was backed by Australian advertising executive David Droga.{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2012/05/31/thunderclap/|title='Crowdspeaking' Platform Thunderclap Pushes Your Tweets to the Masses|author=Kate Freeman|date=May 31, 2012|publisher=Mashable}} Site founder David Cascino said that the idea for the site came to him when he saw how an Occupy Wall Street protester's speech was amplified by the crowd repeating the speech verbatim.{{cite web|url=http://adcglobal.org/david-cascino-thunderclaps-his-way-to-adc-gold/|title=David Cascino "Thunderclaps" his way to ADC Gold|publisher=Art Directors Club of New York|date=2014-05-28|accessdate=2014-05-28}}
Campaigns included activism, fundraising, films, creative projects, and product launches. Thunderclap campaigns had been run by the White House, Major League Baseball, People magazine, Levi's, Durex, Toms Shoes, Sony Pictures, the Discovery Channel, Mozilla, BBC, and United Nations.{{cite web|url=https://www.thunderclap.it/thunderclap_for_brands|title=Thunderclap for Brands|publisher=Thunderclap|accessdate=2014-05-28|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315085250/https://www.thunderclap.it/thunderclap_for_brands|archivedate=2015-03-15}}