Micro-Blogging Site Twitter has announced to shut down its TV apps on Roku, Android TV and Xbox from 24 May. The decision to suspension has come after Twitter has already pulled down apps used by the minority of its userbase including “Twitter for Mac”.
According to the sources, the suspension has come due to the dismal feedback that users gave because these Twitter apps did not allow them to tweet from their account or fully interact with the Twittersphere in general.
However, another leading website posted that Twitter has decided to kill these apps as its platform needs to work with GDPR compliance.
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 https://t.co/fuPJa3nVky on your device or desktop.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 22, 2018
The Report from the social media company said,
In addition, neither Xbox or Roku support a standard regularly supported video player, which made them more difficult to maintain. That also came into play with this decision.
In comparison to other TV applications such as Netflix, Twitter has always lacked the exclusive video content as well. However, Twitter apps will still be available on Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. The company has continued to push into the live video — and the connected-TV apps have been designed to support broader access to its partners’ content.