Q&A: How Yik Yak wants to weed out abuse and become the next Twitter
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The Yik Yak app lets its users post to a local feed without their names or any profile attached. During a Q&A interview with the IDG News Service, Yik Yak co-founder and CEO Tyler Droll and co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Brooks Buffington explained how theyre trying to eliminate abusive content, how they see the app being used, and the role anonymity plays today in social media. Wed go on the schools website, find all the student organizations and the leaders of them, and send them emails like, Hey, Yik Yaks awesome. I know it works well at Walt Disney World, airports, sports stadiums, music and arts festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo. IDG: Your app has also come under fire at colleges and universities due to abuse, even some death threats.
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