Formspring.me is a nifty little app that lets you answer anonymous (or credited) questions from your social network. It's caught on like, well, a virus among certain groups; it bears almost all the hallmarks of a truly infectious application, including self-reference and just a dash of mystery.
Since the app's inception, users have been asking for the ability to post their Q&As elsewhere on the web. The app has been letting users post their answered queries to Twitter and Facebook for a while, and Tumblr and Blogger integrations are also available. But today, Formspring's floodgates are opening for full WordPress support.
Also new today is Formspring's option to share Q&As on MySpace. Users who also have MySpace accounts can now publish their Formspring answers to their MySpace profiles and will, moreover, be able to find their MySpace friends on Formspring.
This app launched just seven months ago; it already gets around 50 million unique visitors each month. Even more exciting, around 40% of Formspring’s 13 million users currently share their Q&As on other sites.
In a release, Formspring CEO and Co-founder Ade Olonoh said, “These integrations with MySpace and WordPress will help us continue to build our rapidly growing global audience. Even more importantly, bringing MySpace and WordPress into the fold lets our users have the ability to share their opinions and insights with their friends and followers through all of the top social media and blogging platforms.”
To us, this integration makes perfect sense, especially for Wordpress users. When your online contacts ask you thought-provoking questions and you give careful -- and sometimes long-winded -- answers, the Q&A ends up reading like a blog post, anyhow.
What do you think: Will these new integrations help Formspring.me grow?