This is just completely untrue. It’s possible social media could have killed Reader. But Reader died because Google killed anything that wasn’t directly contr

This is just completely untrue. It’s possible social media could have killed Reader. But Reader died because Google killed anything that wasn’t directly contributing to Google+, and Reader was competition to Google+. Also, I doubt Reader would have lost to social media. If Reader had stuck around it would most likely have been a Twitter alternative.