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Reader didn't have enough active users to keep it running.
by jasonvorhe 10y ago
Reader didn't have enough active users to keep it running.
- dublinben 10y agoReader didn't have enough active employees to keep it running. Nobody inside Google worked on it any more, so it was just a zombie product running on inertia.
- naravara 10y agoReader's active users, though, tended to be influencers who read a lot and shared what they read with their friends on social media. So they still drove traffic, just by a different mechanism. Many of the people I followed on Reader moved to Twitter after Google took it down and mimicked its social functions there. I'd wager they're still either using RSS readers or jury-rigging Twitter into being something like it.