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06-19-2014, 07:24 PM
An App That Only Lets You Say 'Yo' Just Topped Facebook's Slingshot on iOS
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Yo Facebook, watch out.
The big news in the social messaging space this week was supposed to be Facebook's release of Slingshot (http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/facebook-slingshot-relaunch/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), its latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Then something unexpected happened: Yo (http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/yo-app/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time (http://mashable.com/2013/05/20/best-free-iphone-apps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Hours after Facebook released Slingshot on Tuesday after**on, the Financial Times published an article (http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2014/06/yo-the-new-app-that-takes-simple-to-the-extreme/) about a new app called Yo that simply lets users send the word "Yo" or "YoYo" to their contacts — which has received $1 million in funding from angel investors. That was e**ugh to trigger dozens of baffled articles about the app, and apparently, plenty of downloads Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/yo-facebook-slingshot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Yo Facebook, watch out.
The big news in the social messaging space this week was supposed to be Facebook's release of Slingshot (http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/facebook-slingshot-relaunch/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), its latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Then something unexpected happened: Yo (http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/yo-app/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time (http://mashable.com/2013/05/20/best-free-iphone-apps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Hours after Facebook released Slingshot on Tuesday after**on, the Financial Times published an article (http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2014/06/yo-the-new-app-that-takes-simple-to-the-extreme/) about a new app called Yo that simply lets users send the word "Yo" or "YoYo" to their contacts — which has received $1 million in funding from angel investors. That was e**ugh to trigger dozens of baffled articles about the app, and apparently, plenty of downloads Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/yo-facebook-slingshot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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