Yik Yak, anonymous messaging app shut down four years ago, is back

Remember Yik Yak? The arguable anonymous messaging app is back.

On Monday, a tweet from the verified Twitter relationship for Yik Yak confirmed its instrumentality to the iPhone successful the U.S., with availability successful much countries and connected much devices soon.

The anonymous messaging app allows users to link with others wrong 5 miles of their location. Users conscionable request a phone number to verify their account.

"Inside the app, your individuality is simply a secret," reads a statement from its App Store page. "This makes it amusive and casual to leap into conversations without societal labels!"

The app launched successful 2013 arsenic a mode to link college students, but keeping users anonymous opened the doorway for bullying and harassment.

Several schools banned the app, which would yet pb to a plunge successful popularity implicit time. The app unopen down for bully successful 2017.

"Building Yik Yak—both the app you utilized and the institution that powered it—was the greatest, hardest, astir enjoyable, astir stressful, and yet astir rewarding acquisition we've ever had," work a 2017 blog station from co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington.

New unidentified owners acquired the rights to Yik Yak earlier this year. In a station Monday, Yik Yak said users who marque threats oregon bully others could look an contiguous ban.

"We're committed to making Yik Yak a amusive spot escaped of bullying, threats, and each benignant of negativity," work the statement.

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