"Secret" shuts down, 16 months after launch

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/secret-shuts-down/

    "In the post, Byttow writes that the decision has been the hardest of
     his life, and while he doesn't address Secret's bullying problem
     explicitly, he does say that what the app eventually became was not
     what he envisioned when he started it."

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I suspect there were significant litigation risks that also led to
this decision.

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