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Glowzap is a U.S.-based social media news and content aggregation community website. The site is the 25+-year-old sub-genre of social media websites known as news aggregators and pulls news from across the planet.

Membership to the site is free at this time. The users can post and submit links and content to the site. All posts can be commented on, liked, and shared. Content includes links to other websites, self-published text posts, images, and videos. Users can then vote up and down with the arrows on the content to decide what goes to the front page. There are over 700 categories on the site, which range such as new technology, automobiles, videos, animals, and more.

Glowzap was founded by entrepreneur John Hanrahan as his passion project while he was working in Los Angeles. As a long-time internet user, content poster, technology enthusiast, and website aficionado, Hanrahan had the dream and goal of making a new website in which users could post anything they wanted. He saw the internet as a place where people should share ideas and become inspired. Along with controlling the vote of what content populates the front page. While operating on a limited budget, Hanrahan did all of the design, hiring, wireframes, user interface, and marketing strategy. Along with investor relationships and outreach.

In 2017 Glowzap officially released a new feature to their site called Glowmaps, in which users could not add geodata to their postings. Which would theoretically allow users to view news as it was occurring on a map.