‘The Guardian’ To Pull The Plug On Its Facebook Social Reader App

U.K. newspaper The Guardian will pull the plug on its Facebook social reader application Monday, sending users who click on its links on the social network directly to its website, rather than to pages within Facebook.

U.K. newspaper The Guardian will pull the plug on its Facebook social reader application Monday, sending users who click on its links on the social network directly to its website, rather than to pages within Facebook.

The Guardian Facebook app debuted in conjunction with the social network’s launch of open graph in September 2011. Much like the other social reader apps from news outlets including Yahoo News, The Washington Post, and fellow U.K. newspaper The Independent, the app enabled Facebook users to read and share the newspaper’s content within the Facebook environment, with stories they consumed in this fashion shared on their friends’ news feeds and tickers, as well as on their own timelines.

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