Google Buzz 19 months Old Ends 2010-2011
Google announced it will pull the plug on its microblogging service Google Buzz in favor of its growing social network Google Plus.
“In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+,” Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of product, wrote on The Official Google Blog. “While people obviously won’t be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.”
Google Buzz was announced on February 9, 2010 (19 months ago), in a press conference at the company's Mountain View headquarters and launched on the same day, at 11 a.m. PT for the first set of users.
The feature, available from the Gmail inbox, was rolled out to Gmail accounts in the following weeks. A mobile version of the site optimized for Android phones and Apple's iPhone was also launched, while a version for businesses and schools that use Google Apps is planned. Within 56 hours of its release, 9 million posts were made on Google Buzz — approximately 160,000 posts and comments per hour.
On October 14, 2011, Google announced that Google Buzz would be shut down together with the Buzz API, in order to focus on Google+ instead.
The feature, available from the Gmail inbox, was rolled out to Gmail accounts in the following weeks. A mobile version of the site optimized for Android phones and Apple's iPhone was also launched, while a version for businesses and schools that use Google Apps is planned. Within 56 hours of its release, 9 million posts were made on Google Buzz — approximately 160,000 posts and comments per hour.
On October 14, 2011, Google announced that Google Buzz would be shut down together with the Buzz API, in order to focus on Google+ instead.
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