Walkie Talkie App Voxer Is Going Viral On iPhones And Androids, Trending On Twitter

Most of the communications apps that have gotten big on smartphones have been built by well-established companies that have existing user bases they can promote to, with Facebook, Twitter and Skype being the top examples. The other successes have most often had venture money to help them cover advertising costs. But a smaller startup has been climbing up the iTunes App Store�and Android Market�charges over the last few days. Called Voxer, it provides a walkie talkie push-to-talk voice service reminiscent of Nextel. Or, in modern parlance, it's sort of like text messages but with voice instead of text. It's basically a direct competitor to another startup, HeyTell, that we've covered, as well as TalkBox... and getting to be more of a competitor every day, judging by its recent trajectory. The app has gone from #40 to #7 within the past week within the social networking category of the United States App Store, following its rise earlier this year in random other countries like Brazil and Saudi Arabia. It's now a�trend among many Twitter users, too. (Yeah, the social networking category isn't especially big once you get past the leading web services, but this much growth for this type of app is unusual.)

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/23/viralvoxer/

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