Twitter Killed All of These Second-Screen Apps

Some have evolved, others are dying a prolonged death

Look at your smartphone. Scroll way down in the apps. See those five social TV apps you never use, or maybe the one you do use and the four you haven’t opened in months? What happened to those guys, anyway?

“The packaging of social TV became less relevant as Twitter continued its ascendancy,” explained Geoff Katz, whose company Watchwith syndicates content from NBCUniversal and Fox across apps like Viggle, Shazam and NextGuide. “If I want to know what everyone is talking about, I don’t need to do anything but open up Twitter.

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