Xbox Live to Add Twitter and Facebook
June 2, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Business
Not even Microsoft can ignore the success of Twitter and Facebook. On Monday, Microsoft announced that they will be adding Twitter and Facebook to its Xbox Live experience.
With millions of users who spend an ungodly amount of time their social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook are growing in their importance on the online world. Now that Microsoft plans to allow Twitter and Facebook users to stay on their Xbox 360 during the process, this could be a great way to add more usability to the gaming console.
In addition to Twitter and Facebook, Microsoft also plans to integrate last.fm, a service that streams music, with Xbox live.
Said Shane Kim of Microsoft: “This expands the reach of Xbox live. We have had an effort of making Xbox live a next-generation social and entertainment network.”
It’ll be interesting to see if this move will be a hit with the Xbox Live community.
XBox 360 -- Soon with Twitter and Facebook (Image: Flickr)
