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Formspring / Spring.me

Formspring turned anonymous questions into a viral social profile, escaped a 2013 shutdown at the last minute, then vanished two years later into another social network.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYInternet & Tech
LIFECYCLE2009—2015
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A formally released question-and-answer social network first called Formspring.me and later renamed Spring.me.

Users invited named or anonymous questions and published answers to personal profile pages shared across other networks.

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Existence timeline

Formspring.me launches

Anonymous questions attach to public profiles.

Viral growth

The service spreads through Facebook and Tumblr.

Rebranded Formspring

The network seeks a broader identity.

Closure announced

Users receive time to export answers.

Shutdown averted

New management keeps the network online and prepares a new identity.

Spring.me replaces Formspring

The service continues under its new name.

Service redirects to Twoo

The independent question-and-answer network disappears.

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Why it ended

A 2013 shutdown was averted by new ownership, but the renamed Spring.me service was ultimately redirected into the dating network Twoo in August 2015.

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Last confirmed trace

Archived profiles, screenshots, contemporary reporting and exported data preserve the vanished question streams.
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What it left behind

Formspring foreshadowed recurring cycles of anonymous social apps and the safety problems built into their growth.

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How we classified it

The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.

Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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