Topsy News & Updates

Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison

On this day in 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island. Many believe Topsy wa...

Jan 04, 2017 • Smithsonian Magazine

Apple Shuts Down Social Analytics Firm Topsy

The Topsy website now redirects to Apple's mobile search support page. Topsy analyzed Twitter and pr...

Dec 16, 2015 • PC Magazine

Topsy tailors tool to tease out Twitter trends to a ‘T’

Topsy, a real-time search engine that draws on Twitter’s huge stream of information, today launche...

Aug 21, 2012 • CNET

Michael Daly's heartbreaking 'Topsy' recounts the cutthroat, cruel circus world of 100 years ago

Read this book and you will never again want to attend a circus or watch a show that features "train...

Jul 03, 2013 • Cleveland.com

Two years after acquisition, Apple shuts social analytics platform Topsy

NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Apple Inc has shut down its Topsy Labs unit, which specialized in analy...

Dec 16, 2015 • Yahoo Finance

Apple Buys Twitter Analytics Company Topsy For Over $200 Million

Apple has bought Topsy, a San Francisco-based firm that offers Twitter analytics to companies. The d...

Dec 02, 2013 • Cult of Mac

Why Apple Really Acquired Topsy

Apple raised an eyebrow or two Monday, confirming to The Wall Street Journal that it had acquired To...

Dec 03, 2013 • Inc.

See Alison Saar's 'Topsy Turvy' Art

Alison Saar’s new paintings and sculptures at LA Louver in Venice, CA, (on view through May 12, 20...

Apr 19, 2018 • Forbes

Apple buys startup Topsy; gets rich Twitter data

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc(AAPL.O) has acquired social media search and analytics startup T...

Dec 02, 2013 • Yahoo

A former Topsy employee has an interesting theory on why Apple shut down this $200 million acquisition

Aaron Hayes-Roth is the vice president of strategic alliances at the social-media-monitoring company...

Dec 24, 2015 • Business Insider

Topsy And Tim

At the heart of the show are five-year-old twins, Topsy and Tim. They share the special bond that ma...

Aug 05, 2018 • BBC

Topsy wants to become the Google of Twitter search

Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating—they are sorted on the site by ...

Sep 04, 2013 • PC World

Topsy indexes entire tweet history for search, analysis

Topsy is backfilling its social search engine to include every public tweet ever published on Twitte...

Sep 04, 2013 • CNET

With Topsy Alerts, You'll Never Be the Last to Know

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - Topsy, the real-time social analytics company, toda...

Feb 25, 2013 • Yahoo Finance

Apple buys Topsy to track Twitter

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Apple...

Dec 02, 2013 • The Financial Times

Apple shuts down Topsy two years after acquisition, forwards webpage to iOS 9 search support

Tuesday marked an end of services for social media analytics firm Topsy Labs, a Twitter data special...

Dec 15, 2015 • AppleInsider

Apple buys Twitter analytics company Topsy for reported $200m

Apple has bought the social media analysis company Topsy, in a deal reportedly worth $200m. Led by O...

Dec 02, 2013 • The Guardian

New Topsy tool can spot Twitter trends before they blow up

With more than 400 million daily tweets to draw data from, the trending topics that Twitter constant...

Oct 16, 2012 • CNET

Topsy Becomes Definitive Twitter Search Engine

Social search and analytics provider Topsy announced that users can now search its index for every s...

Sep 04, 2013 • Search Engine Land

Doris Topsy-Elvord, legendary Long Beach leader, dies at 90

Doris Topsy-Elvord, known as “Mother Doris” for her legendary work in the community, and for bei...

Dec 15, 2021 • Press-Telegram

Topsy, Now With Every Tweet From 2006 On, Has Other Social Media Indexes In The Works

Twitter has established itself as top social networking destination, mentioned the same breath as si...

Sep 04, 2013 • TechCrunch

New Topsy Index Leverages Influence & Relevance For Google+ Search

One of the most beneficial features touted by Topsy is the ability to rank social results by influen...

Oct 11, 2011 • Search Engine Land

Elephant's tragic tale is the centerpiece of 'Topsy'

“Topsy,” which is set mainly in America’s Gilded Age, is a gripping popular history that runs ...

Jul 12, 2013 • St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Master the mystery of the topsy turvy top

Your guides to the weird side of the web explore the physics of the topsy turvy top alongside a dive...

Jun 22, 2026 • Amazon S3 on MSN