Creative iPhone App Pokes Fun at Tiger Woods Fiasco
Building upon the drama and calamity that befell hugely popular PGA golf star Tiger Woods after his affairs with numerous mistresses were uncovered recently, a new iPhone app attempts to capitalize on the controversy by offering a new way for those with less than straight forward intentions to be able to communicate with one another. The app, known as TigerText in homage to the golfer’s very public folly, is designed to allow users of the iPhone to send each other messages that are actually set to delete themselves within a specified amount of time set by the sender when they are first sent. The suspected reason for these is to make sure that no evidence of the messages are left behind for the sender to be framed with. The general concept is that if the messages expire so quickly they will not be able to be forwarded or get into the wrong hands to be used against the message writer in the future. While the concept is primarily in jest, it has already picked up a following that are interested in its possibilities for certain types of communications and was even featured in the prominent magazine Time, based in Tiger Woods’ home country.
Using the application, users will be able to send what amounts to an invite to the app that the receiver will be able to then install on their phone in order to read the self destructing message. In this way, it will function differently than a traditional text message with the message never actually being stored on the phone, but rather saved on the servers of Tiger Text.