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"Popular Q&amp;A platform Formspring is releasing its first mobile app and entering the photo sharing space simultaneously Tuesday.\nGoing mobile seems like a no-brainer for the startup. Up until now, the easiest ways to know that someone had asked you a question or had responded to one you asked was through an email alert or the SMS feature. Now, the app can send you a push notification. \nA recent Nielsen report found social media mobile app use to be up 30% and unique mobile visitors on social networks to be up 47% since the same time last year. Formspring is in many ways a social network, so it should prioritize its mobile accessibility.\nFormspring's decision, like Twitter's, to add photo-sharing capabilities is similarly predictable. Users can now ask and respond to questions with a photo. Social networkers are already accustomed to explaining everything from what they're eating to where they are using a photo, so answering a question with an image shouldn't be much of an adjustment.\nWhat's surprising is that the two-year-old startup hasn't made either of these moves earlier. Following its launch in 2009, Formspring experienced a tumultuous growth spurt that made it hard for its developers to catch their breaths. In its first 45 days, it had 1 million users. Within a year, 20 million had signed up. \n\"In the very beginning, the company was focused on not crashing because nobody expected it to grow so fast,\" says Sarahjane Sacchetti, Formspring's director of marketing and communications.\nNow, with 27 million registered users, it seems that the startup's product is finally poised to grow as quickly as its user base. \nIts biggest question in the coming months will be how to monetize its userbase. There have been some hints. The company recently used its \"question of the day\" feature, which is asked of every user, in order to promote Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Its question today is from Taylor Lautner: \"Have you ever felt like you were living someone else's life?\"\nIt includes a link to the YouTube trailer for Abduction, his latest movie.\n\n\n\n\nTop image based on a photo from iStockphoto user urbancow"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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