Last night, TigerText won the Best Mobile App for Social
Media at the MOBI Awards. Their motto for TigerText is "cover your tracks."
The TigerText app allows users to send text messages or photos that delete off both the sender's and receiver's phone after a set period of time.
Once
a sender selects the message lifespan (from 1 minute up to 30 days),
expired messages not only delete from both phones, but are not stored on
any server. The messages cannot be retrieved once expired. It is as if the
messages never existed.
The sender can also choose other options that do not exist with current
texting technology, such as deleting the history of a conversation, or
making a text message "Delete on Read," meaning the message will
disappear 60 seconds after the recipient opens the message.
This app could be useful when users send "sexy" or embarrassing
photos. It will also be handy for gossipy or incriminating text
conversations. We don't think it will be popular with protective parents of teenagers.
TigerText is available worldwide to anyone with an Android, Blackberry,
iPhone, or iPod Touch. TigerText launched in February of 2010.