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06-20-2014, 08:17 PM
Stephen Colbert's First Reaction to Yo App: 'Y?'
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Yo got the Colbert bump last night
Stephen Colbert (http://mashable.com/category/stephen-colbert/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) dedicated an entire segment of his show Thursday night to Yo (http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/yo-app/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a new app that received a tremendous amount of press coverage this week after it reportedly received $1 million in funding just to let users send the word "yo" to each other
See also: An App That Only Lets You Say 'Yo' Just Topped Facebook's Slingshot on iOS (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/yo-facebook-slingshot/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"**w when I first learned about an app that boils down all your communication into two letters, I expressed myself in one: 'y.' But I joined the yo-th movement when I read that the company boasts that it takes 11 taps to send the word 'yo' on a rival messaging service compared to just two on their app," Colbert said. "That's a nine-tap difference — taps you could be spending with your children." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/stephen-colbert-yo/?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 got the Colbert bump last night
Stephen Colbert (http://mashable.com/category/stephen-colbert/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) dedicated an entire segment of his show Thursday night to Yo (http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/yo-app/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a new app that received a tremendous amount of press coverage this week after it reportedly received $1 million in funding just to let users send the word "yo" to each other
See also: An App That Only Lets You Say 'Yo' Just Topped Facebook's Slingshot on iOS (http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/yo-facebook-slingshot/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"**w when I first learned about an app that boils down all your communication into two letters, I expressed myself in one: 'y.' But I joined the yo-th movement when I read that the company boasts that it takes 11 taps to send the word 'yo' on a rival messaging service compared to just two on their app," Colbert said. "That's a nine-tap difference — taps you could be spending with your children." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/stephen-colbert-yo/?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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