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Anonymous chat app draws attention for founder's identity
Toilet aims to be the dark side of WeChat's moments, but most of the attention is on founder Wang Xin
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Remember Secret and Whisper? The idea of anonymous social networks is apparently coming back in China.
Toilet -- and yes, that's really the app's name -- allows users to post a topic or question, then invite other anonymous users to join the conversation. The group is supposed to disappear after an hour.
But one of the reasons the anonymous app is drawing plenty of attention is the identity of its maker: Wang Xin, the CEO of once-popular streaming site Kuaibo, who served three and a half years in prison because Kuaibo gave users reason access to porn.
His new app touts itself as an answer to WeChat's famous Moments newsfeed.
WeChat, the app that does everything
“It’s a dark net of your contacts. It’s the shadow of your WeChat Moments,” says Toilet’s About page. “Everything you can’t see or hear on WeChat, or even those that are deleted, may appear here.”
One thing you won't find on Toilet's website? A download link.
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