thingbuzz
Thingbuzz is the first real-time search and discovery shopping platform based on social media information generated on Twitter, the microblogging service. ThingBuzz was founded in 2009 in Benicia, California.
Thingbuzz was purchased{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Steven E.F. |title=Nextag buys social shopping business Thingbuzz |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/10/18/nextag-buys-social-shopping-thingbuzz.html |website=www.bizjournals.com |publisher=San Francisco Business Times |access-date=14 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021135905/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/10/18/nextag-buys-social-shopping-thingbuzz.html |archive-date=October 21, 2011 |language=en |date=October 18, 2011 |url-status=live}} by Nextag, the leading shopping comparison site based in San Mateo, California, in October 2011, for an undisclosed sum.{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Steven|title=Web editor|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/10/18/nextag-buys-social-shopping-thingbuzz.html|accessdate=December 13, 2011|newspaper=San Francisco Business Times|date=October 28, 2011}}
Description
Thingbuzz searches for things or products that people are talking about or recommending on Twitter, and presents the data in a way that is consumable and searchable. Thingbuzz also shows crowdsourced emerging trend data, measured by the number of tweets, the credibility ranking of tweeters and time.
Things are searchable by the type of tweeter which are categorized into mom, geek, bieber fan, etc. These profile categories are extracted by a self-learning algorithm that filters through 160-character tweeter bios to find common bio categories. Thingbuzz also finds popular products from newly launched e-commerce sites, as they are tweeted by customers. Results from new small stores usually appear on Thingbuzz before they appear on traditional search engines. Tweets are scored using a proprietary scoring method to ensure that high quality tweets show up before tweets most likely to be spam.
Thingbuzz has been described as "a great way to discover new and otherwise under-the-radar products people are talking about."{{cite web|title=Website of the Day: Thingbuzz|url=http://www.geeksugar.com/Find-Popular-Products-Thingbuzz-7103939|publisher=geeksugar|accessdate=18 May 2011}} Also, as "a site that collects the most original products that are on the web"{{cite web|title=kabytes|date=14 January 2010 |url=http://www.kabytes.com/web-20/compra-y-comparte-productos-curiosos/|accessdate=18 May 2011}}
In October 2011, Thingbuzz was acquired by [http://nextag.com Nextag], a shopping comparison site for an undisclosed sum.{{cite web |title=Nextag Socializes Online Shopping with Thingbuzz Acquisition |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nextag-socializes-online-shopping-with-thingbuzz-acquisition-132048388.html |publisher=prnewswire |accessdate=13 November 2011}}
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External links
- [http://www.thingbuzz.com/ Official Website]
- [https://bigredpro.com/ Products Review]
- [https://top5z.com/ Digital Products Lists]
Category:Product searching websites
Category:American search engines
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