You can "Whisper" to someone on Twitch using a chat command, or by going to their profile page. The Whisper feature on Twitch allows you to privately message any other user. Once you Whisper to ...

A few hours after learning a rival app would shut down, Michael Heyward started to explain how his social-media startup, Whisper, will avoid a similar fate. Whisper’s app lets users create and post ...

Twitch has announced its new Whisper feature, a way for users to send private chat messages without having to leave the chat they're currently in. It is called whispering because the chats sent ...

Nearly 900 million confessions and secrets published to the Whisper app were left exposed on a non-password-protect database open to the general public internet. Although messages are not tied to real ...

It’s the stuff of spy novels: What if you could send sensitive information in a message and have it automatically self-destruct after its intended recipient read it? Whisper Systems’ latest release of ...

Slut-shaming and humiliating young girls for their bodies has taken center stage in 2014. In just the past few months, a high school student in Florida was forced to wear a "shame suit" for violating ...

Michael Heyward, co-founder of anonymous messaging app Whisper, became visibly agitated on stage while sparring with interviewer Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch. Some VCs have questioned the ...

The last few years have been tough for anonymous social networks. Yik Yak, the popular collegiate bulletin board once valued at $400 million, recently sold its engineering team to Square for less than ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Social-networking sites such as Facebook create a massive stage for people's public persona, but what about a place for private thoughts? Enter Whisper. The startup's mobile app ...

Last September we reported on the alpha version of BitTorrent’s Bleep messaging app. While its features are otherwise broadly similar to any other messaging app, BitTorrent claims that the app keeps ...