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== Features ==
 
Users of the site could follow others privately. While logged in as a registered user, people could also ask questions to his or her followers from the homepage. Spring.me also asked one question per day named "Formspring Question of the Day" which was flashed in userusers's inbox. In January 2011, Spring.me added a smile button which acted similar to the [[Facebook Like button|Like button on Facebook]].
 
In September 2011, Formspring released an iPhone Application<ref>{{cite news|title=Formspring launches iPhone App|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/09/13/formspring-launches-iphone-app-for-its-personal-q-and-a-service/ | work=Forbes | first=Tomio|last=Geron|date=2011-09-13}}</ref> and several months later, in January 2012, further added to its mobile presence with the launch of its Android Application.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Mashable|last=Kessler|first=Sarah|title=Formspring Launches an Android App|url=http://mashable.com/2012/01/24/formspring_android/|accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref>
 
Also in January 2012, Formspring launched two additional features to the service. One new tool allowed users to sort responses to questions by the number of "Smiles" received in order to bring the most liked content to the top of response streams. The added functionality aimed to give users the power to curate the best content on the site. In addition to letting users see their top smiled responses, the new feature allowed Formspringers to view top responses from other users and also see the most smiled responses to a question that was asked to multiple people at once. The second new functionality launched gave Formspringers the option to choose whether they wantwanted to publicly or privately follow the accounts of other users. As part of this feature, Formspring users were nowthen able to see how many others on the site arewere following their account.<ref name="Empson"/>
 
== Controversies ==