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Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users' Private Messages

As users are desperate to find a new alternative to Twitter, which has been sucked into a morass of endless chaos by its new owner Elon Musk, developers working on Twitter competitors are starting to ...
The Daily Dot

Twitter alternative Hive forced to shut down over security vulnerabilities

The social media platform Hive has temporarily shut down after security researchers discovered that it was riddled with severe vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Wednesday, the researchers, part of a ...
Business Insider

Hive Social's 24-year old founder said it was 'unsurprising' that Elon Musk acknowledged the existence of her small but growing social media app vying to lure Twitter users

Hive is the latest social media app to climb to the top of the App Store as Twitter users look for alternatives. Elon Musk even took notice, responding to a tweet asking, "what the f--- is hive." Hive ...
TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: The year’s best apps, Twitter rival Hive’s security woes, App Store backlash grows

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. This Week in Apps offers a way to keep up ...