Facebook
said it is sun setting three apps, Moves, tbh and Hello, due to low
usage and so it can refocus its development efforts.
Mobile
World Live reports that Hello was launched in 2015 for
people using Android in Brazil, the US and Nigeria, while Moves is a
fitness app it bought in 2014.
Tbh
was an anonymous social media app for high school students which the
company acquired in 2017.
Facebook
said it will delete the user data from all three apps within 90 days.
“We
regularly review our apps to assess which ones people value most.
Sometimes this means closing an app and its accompanying APIs. We
know some people are still using these apps and will be disappointed
– and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their
support. But we need to prioritise our work so we don’t spread
ourselves too thin. And it’s only by trial and error that we’ll
create great social experiences for people,” the company said in a
statement.
Sensor
Tower found Hello had only 570,000 total downloads, though Moves was
more popular at 13 million and tbh had 6.4 million.
The
latter two are fairly big figures, but not when compared to the
billions of downloads Facebook’s other properties have, including
its core app, Instagram and WhatsApp.
In
the past Facebook has also shut down M, a personal assistant app,
a Snapchat clone called Lifestage and its Groups app.
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