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Checking in with Yik Yak


Last updated May 3, 2016

By Furman News

Over the last year, Yik Yak has been adding more tools to make the app “a more positive place, a more entertaining place for our users, because that’s why they keep coming back,” says Brooks Buffington ’13, the 24-year-old co-founder of the company and a 2013 Furman graduate.  USA Today wrote about Yik Yak’s latest developments when Buffington was in Charleston to address the DigSouth tech conference.

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