Anonymous social apps Secret release Android version

The popular anonymous social application on the IOS platform Secret today officially unveiled the Android version. Not only that, the new Android version of Secret added a new user-required feature before the IOS version: an increase in the choice of separating the flow of information in the social circle from the flow of strangers.

Co-founder Chrys Bader says the feature, which is more convenient for viewing acquaintances ' gossip, will soon be added to IOS apps.

In addition, Secret is officially open to all countries in the world from now on. At the start of the release, Secret only opened to IOS users in the U.S. market, and then gradually expanded the territory to the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Sercret has now received 8.6 million dollars in financing, but has not disclosed data on users. As a reference, Whisper, who claims to have anonymous social services for "millions of" users, now has 60 million dollars in financing, valued at around 200 million dollars.

Secret is an anonymous social application, but it also provides a degree of "identity information" that allows users to see contacts and secrets from their friends, and the location of the information is also labeled. This "still embrace pipa half cover" type of anonymity so that Secret quickly popular, especially as the Silicon Valley technology circle complained of colleagues boss, the launch of the Tip of the grapevine.

But Secret is also controversial about the adverse consequences of personal attacks and disinformation, one of the challenges the start-up has been trying to solve.