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The Science of Social Media - I Left Google to Build Tech Ladies

Communication — How social media made it possible [Tech]
Communicationest. 2016
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 3818 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
buffer.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Science of Social Media - I Left Google to Build Tech Ladies's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://buffer.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Peer Connectcommunicationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Tune Academyeducationtag-overlap83%0.00.0■ inactive
CloserToGoalscommunicationsimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
Soulmixproductivitytag-overlap80%0.00.0■ inactive
Truspercommunicationsimilar80%40.0+9.6● live
Hungershareentertainmenttag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
People Stashentertainmenttag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
Potentiaeducationtag-overlap80%0.00.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 09:48Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare3102redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 14:01Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare1783redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:25Z10014timeout
2026-08-08 05:00Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare2149redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:57Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare2535redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:51Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare2723redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:34Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare3261redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:28Z10002timeout
2026-07-04 16:30Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare4263redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:08Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare5417redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 14:07Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare2794redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:16Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare1768redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:34Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare1745redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:40Z200bufferapp.com → buffer.comcloudflare1896redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Science of Social Media - I Left Google to Build Tech Ladies · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-science-of-social-media-i-left-google-to-build-tech-ladies · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.