Google Begins Shutting Down its Social Networking App Google+ Amid Competition From Facebook, Twitter
Pulling away efforts of competing with social networking majors like Facebook and Twitter, Google has begun the process of shutting down its social networking app Google+.
San Francisco, April 3: Pulling away efforts of competing with social networking majors like Facebook and Twitter, Google has begun the process of shutting down its social networking app Google+.
Even though the process of completely deleting all personal Google+ accounts would still take a few months, content deletion including photos and videos from Google+ album archives have started, The Verge reported on Monday.
The search-engine giant's plans of putting an end to Google+ were officially announced in October 2018. 52.5 Million Users Affected by Google+ Data Breach; Google To Shutdown Social Network by April 2019.
Apart from just low user engagement, the demise of Google+ also came as a result of a software design flaw that exposed some private user data to third-party developers including occupation, gender, age and email address.
The flaw had existed since 2015 and it could potentially have affected up to five lakh Google+ accounts. The platform was launched as Google's own social networking platform in June 2011.
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