In case writing about life under an enigmatic Twitter handle isn't private enough, Whisper is the new app that will let you spill your deepest secrets in a completely anonymous way.
The app for Android and iOS devices brings users together in a community of sorts where they can safely share their secrets through photos with text, Yahoo! Tech reported.
Whisper users can share their secrets through a few lines of text put on top of an image.
Unlike Facebook or Twitter, users don't have a way to officially connect, so they don't have to give any personal information or build up a network.
Whisper garners more than 3 billion page views per month, a company representative told Yahoo.
The app first launched at UCLA, where it became popular among the students. Whisper's users are mostly female (around 70 percent) and aged 18 to 24. Whisper co-founder and CEO Michael Heyward believes the app will only get bigger.
"We see Whisper as a service that a large part of the world's population is going to use," Heyward told Mashable. "Anonymity is just going to become a bigger and bigger thing. We see Whisper as owning that medium--in a lot of ways similar to how Twitter has owned and created this medium out of 140-character broadcast messages."
The Whisper app works by automatically bringing the user to the "Featured" page, which has some of the top posts.
Users can click a heart symbol on a secret similar to the "like" function on Facebook or the "favorite" star on Twitter. To create a new Whisper post, users select the plus symbol on the bottom of the screen.
Whisper will let you type a confession, put the text over an image and then post. Users can select the photo that Whisper automatically supplies or take their own photos; they can also add a location or various tags.
The community aspect of Whisper comes into play when users heart each other's secrets or post a reply, but because the site is completely anonymous, Whisper doesn't allow cliques to form.
Users can post their secrets to other social networks such as Facebook or Pinterest, but what would be the point in that?
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