BuzzSpreader Powered by Kuchikomi@Kakaricho

The complete BuzzSpreader Powered by Kuchikomi@Kakaricho service ended on December 31, 2024.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

Research & data analysis · Jul 2008 – 31 Dec 2024 · Hotto Link Inc.

The record

A paid social-listening and machine-learning analytics workspace for collecting online discussion, classifying sentiment and exploring audience patterns.

Operator at shutdown: Hotto Link Inc. Company source
Launched: Jul 2008Launch source
Service end: 31 Dec 2024Closure source
Lifespan: About 16 years 5 months

Sources and verification

Hotto Link — BuzzSpreader Powered by Kuchikomi service end ↗ · Checked 25 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: The August27,2024 original timetable explicitly ends the full service December31; the operator’s January6,2025-updated technical interview states completed service end on that exact day, corroborated by its corporate history. This is the entire independently named paid social-listening/analytics product with customer access, rather than removal of one classifier. Traditional machine learning powered sentiment and inferred-account-attribute analysis; do not call this an implemented generative-AI service. The old Kuchikomi@Kakaricho was renamed into this exact product in2019, without creating a new product; the broader BuzzSpreader brand’s other tools are not all declared closed. Hashpick and other Hotto Link services continue. The documented July2008 initial release is distinct from2019 rename and2015 upgrades. Cutoff hour/time zone were not established. Root could read the original press, interview and history; terms returned503 to root although the independent researcher read them, so no root terms-access claim is made. Closure source
Dates checked: Announced 27 Aug 2024 · Verified 25 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: The official history places initial formal release inJuly2008;2019 is only a rename of that same service, and2015 an upgrade.
Location: Japan · Tokyo. The original rename release expressly names Hotto Link’s Tokyo headquarters; the original end notice also supplies a Tokyo business contact. This is an operator-headquarters city fallback, not a model/server location. GeoNames supplies rounded city coordinates. Location source · Coordinate source