1.2 million venues have been buzz’d

If you’re planning to go out for the night in any of the major US cities then you might want to try out buzz’d. By texting your zipcode to buzz’d’s shortcode you can be told the answer to the question on everybody’s lips – “What’s going on around me right now?”

There are now 1.2 million venues in the database with 10% of those being added by users themselves. The top cities being New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and London in the UK and not surprisingly the most popular days for usage are Friday, followed by Saturday and then Thursday.

If you’re going out this weekend why don’t you give it a try and let us know how you get on.

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