An App That Only Lets You Say 'Yo' Just Topped Facebook's Slingshot on iOS
 

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, its latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Then something unexpected happened: Yo.

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Hours after Facebook released Slingshot on Tuesday after**on, the Financial Times published an article 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...

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