{"id":261147,"date":"2018-05-23T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T07:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=261147"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T07:10:30","slug":"twitter-kills-roku-android-tv-and-xbox-one-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/261147-twitter-kills-roku-android-tv-and-xbox-one-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter kills Roku, Android TV, and Xbox One apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/998956840674193409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will shut down its TV apps on Roku, Android TV, and Xbox One starting from 24 May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get the full Twitter experience, visit https:\/\/twitter.com on your device or desktop,&#8221; the social media platform said.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter apps for these platforms were not popular, as they prevented users from logging in and tweeting, causing the Xbox One version of the app to receive a rating of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/p\/twitter-on-xbox\/9nblggh52csl?tduid=(f9f84ec93da8d2a5fa335ec243256e80)(256380)(2459594)(nOD_rLJHOac-mIWMA0tfvHug_uvv0FKGmQ)()#ratings-reviews?ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=nOD%2FrLJHOac&amp;ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-mIWMA0tfvHug_uvv0FKGmQ\" target=\"-blank\"><strong>1-and-a-half stars<\/strong><\/a> out of 5 on the Microsoft Store.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter for Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV will continue to be available.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Thursday, May 24, Twitter for Roku, Twitter for Android TV and Twitter for Xbox will no longer be available. To get the full Twitter experience, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fuPJa3nVky\">https:\/\/t.co\/fuPJa3nVky<\/a> on your device or desktop.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/998956840674193409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/260423-i-hope-bitcoin-will-be-the-internets-native-currency-twitter-ceo.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">I hope Bitcoin will be the Internet\u2019s native currency \u2013 Twitter CEO<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will shut down its TV apps on Roku, Android TV, and Xbox from 24 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[25581,28212,405,19572],"class_list":["post-261147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android-tv","tag-roku","tag-twitter","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261151,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261147\/revisions\/261151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}