Social News App News.me Shuts Down

News.me, the iOS app that made headlines this summer when it bought the fallen giant Digg, today shut down its social news app rather than compete "with a platform" -- Twitter -- "on which it relies," the company announced today.

News.me, the iOS app that made headlines this summer when it bought the fallen giant Digg, today shut down its social news app rather than compete “with a platform” — Twitter — “on which it relies,” the company announced today.

News.me used an algorithm that found links to news articles in a user’s Twitter and Facebook networks and then displayed those articles in what the company calls a “news-friendly reading experience.”

The app relies on Twitter’s API to find news articles relevant to individual users.

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