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Twinge

Entertainment — Play interactive stories within Facebook Messenger bot — "Choose your own adventure" games on Me…
Entertainmentest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 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
4
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 12, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 2597 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
messenger.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Twinge's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.messenger.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.messenger.com%2Ft%2F671144179922467%2F%3Fmessaging_source%3Dsource%253Apages%253Amessage_shortlink%26source_id%3D1441792%26recurring_notification%3D0) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 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: 4 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
Hooked on Love chatbotentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
PowerTelegramai-toolstag-overlap100%40.7+9.6● live
(naow)communicationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Party Botentertainmentsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
MeatChatentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Hotelhunttraveltag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
TrumpTalkTherapycommunicationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Sober October AI Chatbotai-toolstag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified

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
2026-08-24 13:34Z200m.me → messenger.com1798redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:18Z200m.me → messenger.com2064redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:13Z200m.me → messenger.com1826redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:17Z200m.me → messenger.com2700redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:16Z200m.me → messenger.com3075redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:10Z200m.me → messenger.com2621redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 13:55Z200m.me → messenger.com3283redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:42Z200m.me → messenger.com3533redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 15:49Z200m.me → messenger.com2748redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:27Z200m.me → messenger.com2671redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:23Z200m.me → messenger.com3088redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 10:40Z200m.me → messenger.com2233redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 16:48Z200m.me → messenger.com2740redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 10:59Z200m.me → messenger.com1977redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Twinge · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/twinge · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.