Hive Social is a
microblogging
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service and
mobile app
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. The app received news coverage during the
acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
Business magnate Elon Musk initiated the acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk began buying Twitter shares in January 2022, eventually becoming the company's ...
in November 2022.
Hive Social was developed by Raluca Pop, also known as Kassandra Pop, with the help of a freelance developer, and the first version launched on the Apple
App Store
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in October 2019.
A beta version for Android was released via the
Google Play
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store on November 10, 2022. The app has been described as a hybrid between
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
,
Instagram and
Tumblr
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr; pronounced "tumbler") is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a sho ...
,
with text, image and video posts supported. Hive is rated for ages 17+ and explicit images are permitted, including sexual intercourse, genitalia and nude close-ups. Hive features a chronological timeline with no personalisation algorithms,
while profiles offer a
MySpace-like song playing feature.
the app has reached number one on the top free social apps on the App Store
and has over one million user accounts, despite email verification limits being reached.
On 30 November 2022, "zerforschung", a German hacker collective, published information about severe security issues with Hive Social, among them the possibility to access all personal data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also included private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login. Attackers could also overwrite data such as posts owned by other users. In response to the publication of the security report, Hive abruptly shut down their service to attempt to address the vulnerabilities.
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