{"id":3478,"date":"2015-02-05T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/05\/what-is-yik-yak-a-very-popular-app\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:34:57","slug":"what-is-yik-yak-a-very-popular-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/what-is-yik-yak-a-very-popular-app\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Yik Yak? A very popular app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16322 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-small.jpg\" alt=\"YikYak-small\" width=\"240\" height=\"203\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/203;\" \/><\/a>Yik Yak, a mobile, anonymous social network with apps for Android and iOS, launched in November 2013 and has been a huge hit on college campuses ever since. \u201cYou can think of it as a local, anonymous Twitter or a local virtual bulletin board,\u201d says co-founder Tyler Droll, who started the site with friend and fellow 2013 Furman graduate Brooks Buffington. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3694578\/you-asked-what-is-yik-yak\/\">Time<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine wrote an article about Yik Yak and its rapidly growing success. The company thus far has generated two million users and $72 million in venture capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yik Yak, a mobile, anonymous social network with apps for Android and iOS, launched in November 2013 and has been a huge hit on college campuses ever since. \u201cYou can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,3,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}