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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.



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