The social media graveyard

Every social app and feature that was shut down, with its dates, cause of death and a eulogy.

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73apps and features buried

58 apps and 15 features, laid to rest between 2008 and 2025. Meta dug the most graves (23). The median grave lived 3 years, 8 months.

Shortest-livedHobbi5 monthsFebruary 2020 to July 10, 2020Visit the grave Longest-livedSkype21 years, 8 monthsAugust 29, 2003 to May 5, 2025Visit the grave

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R.I.P.
Messenger desktop app
2020–2025
MetaApp
Lived 5 years, 9 months
“It arrived just in time for lockdown video calls with family. Chats now live in the browser, the Facebook app and your phone.”
Cause of death: Meta retired the Mac and Windows apps to focus on mobile and web
Born March 2020
Died December 15, 2025
The Mac and Windows apps. Messenger itself goes on.
R.I.P.
Skype
2003–2025
MicrosoftApp
Lived 21 years, 8 months
“Skype turned calling someone into a verb and put grandparents on video. It signed off after nearly 22 years.”
Cause of death: Retired so Microsoft could focus on the free version of Teams
Born August 29, 2003
Died May 5, 2025
R.I.P.
Foursquare City Guide
2009–2024
FoursquareApp
Lived 15 years, 9 months
“It made checking in a sport and crowned a mayor of every coffee shop. Fifteen years of tips, then the last check out.”
Cause of death: Foursquare shut its original app to focus on Swarm and its data business
Born March 11, 2009
Died December 15, 2024
R.I.P.
Cohost
2022–2024
IndependentApp
Lived 2 years, 4 months
“No ads, no algorithm, and a bug mascot named eggbug. It ran on goodwill and a tiny budget, and both ran out at the same time.”
Cause of death: Ran out of money; the small unpaid team was burned out
Born June 2022
Died October 2024
R.I.P.
CrowdTangle
2011–2024
MetaApp
Lived about 13 years
“The tool journalists and researchers used to see what was going viral. Many asked for it to stay through the 2024 US election.”
Cause of death: Replaced by Meta Content Library, which has more limited access
Born 2011
Died August 14, 2024
R.I.P.
Facebook News tab
2019–2024
MetaFeature
Lived 4 years, 6 months
“A dedicated front page for journalism inside Facebook. News stayed in the feed, but the tab itself closed.”
Cause of death: Use of the tab fell over 80% in a year in the US and Australia
Born October 25, 2019
Died April 2024
This stone is for the US and Australia. It closed in the UK, France and Germany in 2023.
R.I.P.
Keen
2020–2024
GoogleApp
Lived 3 years, 9 months
“A Pinterest for your hobbies, sorted by machine learning. It kept everyone's hobby boards tidy for almost four years.”
Cause of death: Area 120 experiment wound down after years without major updates
Born June 18, 2020
Died March 24, 2024
R.I.P.
Gas
2022–2023
DiscordApp
Lived 15 months
“An app where teens sent each other anonymous compliments. In a feed full of hot takes, it was trying to be nice.”
Cause of death: Discord bought it for the team and closed it as teen users drifted away
Born August 2022
Died November 7, 2023
R.I.P.
Pebble (formerly T2)
2023–2023
IndependentApp
Lived 7 months
“Built by former Twitter staff as a kinder Twitter. It lasted about a year, then left a Mastodon server behind so the regulars had a place to go.”
Cause of death: Twitter alternative that grew too slowly to raise more money
Born April 2023
Died November 1, 2023
R.I.P.
Twitter Circle
2022–2023
XFeature
Lived 15 months
“Tweets for up to 150 close friends only. A small, cozy room whose walls were thinner than promised.”
Cause of death: Retired after bugs showed private Circle posts to the public
Born August 2022
Died October 31, 2023
R.I.P.
Amazon Amp
2022–2023
AmazonApp
Lived 19 months
“Amp let anyone host a live radio show with real licensed music. A clever idea that never quite found its audience.”
Cause of death: Live radio app that could not find enough listeners in 18 months
Born March 8, 2022
Died October 2023
R.I.P.
Messenger Lite
2016–2023
MetaApp
Lived 6 years, 11 months
“Small enough for cheap phones and slow networks, and downloaded hundreds of millions of times. It ran light right to the end.”
Cause of death: Users were moved to the full Messenger app or Facebook Lite
Born October 2016
Died September 18, 2023
The Android app for low-end phones.
R.I.P.
Google Currents
2020–2023
GoogleApp
Lived 3 years
“The last branch of the Google+ family tree, kept alive at the office. It retired into Chat without a fuss.”
Cause of death: Workplace social feed folded into Spaces in Google Chat
Born July 6, 2020
Died July 5, 2023
For Google Workspace business and school accounts.
R.I.P.
Poparazzi
2021–2023
IndependentApp
Lived 2 years, 1 month
“The app where you could not post yourself, only your friends could. A lovely idea that topped the charts for a summer.”
Cause of death: Hit number one on the App Store, then could not keep users coming back
Born May 24, 2021
Died June 30, 2023
R.I.P.
YouTube Stories
2018–2023
GoogleFeature
Lived about 5 years
“YouTube Stories were built to disappear after seven days. In the end the whole feature did too.”
Cause of death: Little traction; YouTube moved focus to Shorts and Community posts
Born 2018
Died June 26, 2023
R.I.P.
Spotify Live
2021–2023
SpotifyApp
Lived about 2 years
“Started as Greenroom, renamed Spotify Live, and closed within two years. Live audio rooms were the trend of 2021, and it showed.”
Cause of death: Spotify said a standalone live audio app no longer made sense
Born 2021
Died April 30, 2023
Launched as Spotify Greenroom in summer 2021.
R.I.P.
Instant Articles
2015–2023
MetaFeature
Lived 7 years, 11 months
“News that loaded fast inside the Facebook app. Publishers got six months notice, and links went back to their own websites.”
Cause of death: Meta pulled back from news; under 3% of Feed was news links
Born May 12, 2015
Died April 2023
R.I.P.
Instagram Live Shopping
2020–2023
MetaFeature
Lived about 3 years
“Born in lockdown, when we bought everything through a screen. When the shops reopened, the live product tags went quiet.”
Cause of death: Live shopping never took off in North America; Instagram focused on ads
Born 2020
Died March 16, 2023
Only product tags in live video ended. Instagram Live and shops go on.
R.I.P.
Reddit Talk
2021–2023
RedditFeature
Lived 23 months
“Live audio rooms for subreddits, born in the Clubhouse boom. The rooms went quiet, but the threads kept talking.”
Cause of death: Its audio vendor was closing, and keeping it alive took more than Reddit planned
Born April 2021
Died March 2023
R.I.P.
Revue
2015–2023
TwitterApp
Lived about 8 years
“A friendly home for newsletters, bought by Twitter and closed two years later. Writers got a few weeks to pack up their subscriber lists.”
Cause of death: Twitter closed the newsletter tool it bought in 2021
Born 2015
Died January 18, 2023
R.I.P.
Google Hangouts
2013–2022
GoogleApp
Lived 9 years, 6 months
“Hangouts carried a decade of family video calls and group chats. Then it handed the baton to Chat and quietly left.”
Cause of death: Replaced by Google Chat as Google merged its messaging apps
Born May 15, 2013
Died November 1, 2022
R.I.P.
Facebook Gaming app
2020–2022
MetaApp
Lived 2 years, 6 months
“A home for streamers and instant games, launched just as everyone was stuck indoors. The streams kept going in the main app.”
Cause of death: Struggled against Twitch and YouTube; gaming stayed inside the Facebook app
Born April 2020
Died October 28, 2022
Only the separate app closed. Gaming stayed inside Facebook.
R.I.P.
Facebook Neighborhoods
2021–2022
MetaFeature
Lived about 1 year
“A friendly Nextdoor inside Facebook, with a separate profile for your block. Lost dogs and lawn mower loans went back to Groups.”
Cause of death: Meta chose to steer local chat back into regular Facebook Groups
Born 2021
Died October 1, 2022
Only ever offered in the US and Canada.
R.I.P.
Facebook Live Shopping
2020–2022
MetaFeature
Lived 2 years, 2 months
“Shopping channel energy, live from your feed. Facebook Live stayed; the product tags and playlists left the stage.”
Cause of death: Viewers preferred short videos, so Meta shifted to Reels
Born August 2020
Died October 1, 2022
Only the shopping tools ended. Facebook Live itself goes on.
R.I.P.
Tuned
2020–2022
MetaApp
Lived 2 years, 5 months
“A private little app for couples to swap notes, songs and moods. About two years together, which is respectable.”
Cause of death: An NPE Team experiment that did not stick
Born April 2020
Died September 19, 2022
R.I.P.
Nearby Friends
2014–2022
MetaFeature
Lived about 8 years
“It told you a friend was a few blocks away so you could grab a coffee. Eight years later, people just texted.”
Cause of death: Removed with other location features due to low usage
Born 2014
Died May 31, 2022
R.I.P.
IGTV app
2018–2022
MetaApp
Lived 3 years, 9 months
“Vertical long videos, pitched as Instagram's answer to YouTube. Few people downloaded it, so the videos moved back home.”
Cause of death: Instagram folded all video, including Reels, into the main app
Born June 20, 2018
Died March 2022
R.I.P.
Facebook Campus
2020–2022
MetaFeature
Lived 18 months
“Facebook went back to college, .edu email required. It turned out the students had already found Groups.”
Cause of death: Pilot ended; Meta said Facebook Groups served students better
Born September 10, 2020
Died March 2022
US only, at about 200 colleges.
R.I.P.
Threads from Instagram (2019)
2019–2021
MetaApp
Lived 2 years, 2 months
“A camera first messenger just for your Close Friends list. The name was later reused, and the sequel did better.”
Cause of death: Low use; its close friends features moved into the main Instagram app
Born October 2019
Died December 2021
The 2019 messaging app, not the Threads launched in 2023.
R.I.P.
Houseparty
2016–2021
Epic GamesApp
Lived 5 years, 8 months
“The living room of 2020, where the whole family could drop in at once. When the doors reopened outside, the party quietly emptied.”
Cause of death: Lockdown hit faded and Epic Games moved the team to other projects
Born February 2016
Died October 2021
R.I.P.
Byte
2020–2021
IndependentApp
Lived 21 months
“Vine's cofounder tried to bring back six-second loops. The loops were charming, but the timing was not.”
Cause of death: Vine's spiritual successor could not catch TikTok; sold and replaced by Clash
Born January 24, 2020
Died October 12, 2021
Relaunched under new owners as Clash.
R.I.P.
LinkedIn Stories
2020–2021
LinkedInFeature
Lived 12 months
“Disappearing posts met a network built on permanent resumes. Each Story lasted a day, and the feature lasted about a year.”
Cause of death: Members wanted videos that stay on their profile, not ones that vanish
Born September 24, 2020
Died September 30, 2021
R.I.P.
Fleets
2020–2021
TwitterFeature
Lived 9 months
“Tweets that vanished after 24 hours. Fittingly, the whole feature vanished in under a year.”
Cause of death: Did not bring new people into the conversation, as Twitter had hoped
Born November 2020
Died August 3, 2021
R.I.P.
Yahoo Answers
2005–2021
YahooApp
Lived 15 years, 5 months
“Fifteen years of earnest questions, confident answers and the occasional legend. The internet's strangest library closed its doors.”
Cause of death: Yahoo said it had become less popular as member needs changed
Born December 8, 2005
Died May 4, 2021
R.I.P.
Periscope
2015–2021
TwitterApp
Lived 6 years
“It let anyone go live from their phone and see hearts float up the screen. Live video became normal, which was the plan all along.”
Cause of death: Usage fell and live video moved into the Twitter app itself
Born March 26, 2015
Died March 2021
R.I.P.
Mixer
2016–2020
MicrosoftApp
Lived 4 years, 7 months
“Mixer had fast streams and famous signings. The viewers stayed put, and the lights went off after one month's notice.”
Cause of death: Could not grow its streaming audience fast enough to rival Twitch
Born January 5, 2016
Died July 22, 2020
R.I.P.
Lasso
2018–2020
FacebookApp
Lived 20 months
“Fifteen second music videos, a little before everyone wanted them. It found fans in Mexico, then handed the stage to Reels.”
Cause of death: Never caught on outside Mexico; Facebook moved to Instagram Reels
Born November 9, 2018
Died July 10, 2020
R.I.P.
Hobbi
2020–2020
FacebookApp
Lived 5 months
“A tidy scrapbook for your sourdough, knitting and garden projects. It lasted about five months, which is about as long as most new hobbies do.”
Cause of death: An experiment that did not catch on, with only a few thousand downloads
Born February 2020
Died July 10, 2020
R.I.P.
Facebook Spaces
2017–2019
FacebookApp
Lived 2 years, 6 months
“Cartoon avatars drawing in the air and taking VR selfies with friends. It never made it to Quest, but it showed the way.”
Cause of death: Closed to make way for Facebook Horizon, its next social VR attempt
Born April 18, 2017
Died October 25, 2019
R.I.P.
Google Bulletin
2018–2019
GoogleApp
Lived 21 months
“Hyperlocal news written by neighbors, for neighbors. The neighborhood was lovely. It was just very quiet.”
Cause of death: Never left its pilot phase and never caught on
Born January 25, 2018
Died October 2019
R.I.P.
Google+
2011–2019
GoogleApp
Lived 7 years, 9 months
“Circles were a genuinely good idea. Most of us just kept our circles somewhere else.”
Cause of death: Low engagement, then an API bug that could expose private profile data
Born June 28, 2011
Died April 2, 2019
The consumer version. A business version lived on as Currents.
R.I.P.
Myspace music uploads
2003–2019
MyspaceFeature
Lived 15 years, 7 months
“Twelve years of garage bands, first demos and profile songs, around 50 million tracks. A reminder that the cloud is just someone else's hard drive.”
Cause of death: A server migration corrupted every song, photo and video uploaded before 2016
Born August 1, 2003
Died March 2019
Myspace confirmed the loss in March 2019. The files broke during a server move.
R.I.P.
Google Allo
2016–2019
GoogleApp
Lived 2 years, 6 months
“It had stickers, Smart Reply and the Assistant built in. It just never had your friends.”
Cause of death: Few users; Google moved its messaging bet to RCS Chat in Android Messages
Born September 21, 2016
Died March 12, 2019
R.I.P.
Moments
2015–2019
FacebookApp
Lived 3 years, 8 months
“It used face recognition to hand you the party photos your friends never sent. Those photos could be exported until May 2019.”
Cause of death: Not enough people used it
Born June 15, 2015
Died February 25, 2019
R.I.P.
Path
2010–2018
KakaoApp
Lived 7 years, 11 months
“A private network capped at your closest friends. It turned out most people wanted a bigger room, but the few who stayed loved the quiet.”
Cause of death: Never found a big enough audience; owner Kakao closed it after eight years
Born November 14, 2010
Died October 18, 2018
R.I.P.
Musical.ly
2014–2018
ByteDanceApp
Lived about 4 years
“Lip-sync videos that made a generation famous in their bedrooms. It did not really die. It changed its name and took over the world.”
Cause of death: Merged into TikTok, its sister app, after ByteDance bought it
Born 2014
Died August 2, 2018
Accounts and videos moved into TikTok.
R.I.P.
Yahoo Messenger
1998–2018
YahooApp
Lived 20 years, 4 months
“Buzz! Twenty years of chat rooms, emoticons and away messages. It went offline for good in the summer of 2018.”
Cause of death: Lost ground to newer chat apps, with no replacement ready
Born March 9, 1998
Died July 17, 2018
R.I.P.
StumbleUpon
2002–2018
IndependentApp
Lived about 16 years
“One button, endless random corners of the internet. Sixteen years of happy accidents before the stumbling finally stopped.”
Cause of death: Retired by its cofounder, who moved users to his new site Mix
Born 2002
Died June 30, 2018
R.I.P.
Klout
2008–2018
LithiumApp
Lived about 10 years
“It gave everyone a number from 1 to 100 for being influential online. Its own final score was a quiet exit on the day GDPR arrived.”
Cause of death: Owner Lithium dropped it as off-strategy, closing on GDPR day
Born 2008
Died May 25, 2018
R.I.P.
Digg Reader
2013–2018
DiggFeature
Lived 4 years, 9 months
“Built in a hurry to catch refugees from Google Reader. It gave them five calm years of feeds before it, too, sent everyone packing.”
Cause of death: Digg closed its RSS reader with two weeks notice and no reason given
Born June 26, 2013
Died March 2018
R.I.P.
Plaxo
2002–2017
ComcastApp
Lived 15 years, 2 months
“It kept everyone's contact details up to date, mostly by emailing you about it. Fifteen years later, its own entry was finally removed.”
Cause of death: Comcast closed the aging address book network to focus on Xfinity
Born November 12, 2002
Died December 31, 2017
R.I.P.
Facebook Groups app
2014–2017
FacebookApp
Lived 2 years, 9 months
“A separate home for your groups, in a world where everyone already lived in the main app. The groups moved back in.”
Cause of death: People used Groups inside the main Facebook app instead
Born November 18, 2014
Died September 1, 2017
Only the separate app closed. Groups live on inside Facebook.
R.I.P.
Lifestage
2016–2017
FacebookApp
Lived 12 months
“A video yearbook for high schoolers, built by a 19 year old. It graduated early, before most of its class showed up.”
Cause of death: Teens did not adopt it, and it raised safety concerns about age checks
Born August 2016
Died August 4, 2017
R.I.P.
Yik Yak
2013–2017
IndependentAppCame back in 2021
Lived 3 years, 6 months
“The campus bulletin board you could read within a few miles. It came back in 2021, proving some yaks are hard to keep quiet.”
Cause of death: Downloads collapsed after bullying problems; Square bought the engineers for $1M
Born November 2013
Died May 2017
Shut down in 2017, back on the App Store in August 2021.
R.I.P.
Google Spaces
2016–2017
GoogleApp
Lived 11 months
“Launched, frozen and gone inside eleven months. A short stay, but a tidy one.”
Cause of death: A small-group sharing app that never found its group
Born May 16, 2016
Died April 17, 2017
R.I.P.
So.cl
2012–2017
MicrosoftApp
Lived 4 years, 10 months
“A social network for collages and learning, built inside Microsoft Research. Short on vowels, generous with creativity.”
Cause of death: A Microsoft Research experiment that never left its niche
Born May 20, 2012
Died March 15, 2017
R.I.P.
App.net
2012–2017
IndependentApp
Lived 4 years, 7 months
“A crowdfunded promise of social media without ads, where you were the customer. Enough people loved the idea, not enough paid twice.”
Cause of death: Paid, ad-free Twitter rival whose subscribers did not renew
Born August 2012
Died March 2017
R.I.P.
Vine
2013–2017
TwitterApp
Lived 4 years
“Six seconds, looped forever. It turned teenagers into comedians and gave the internet a thousand catchphrases we still quote.”
Cause of death: Creators left for Instagram and Snapchat, and Twitter was cutting costs
Born January 24, 2013
Died January 17, 2017
The app became Vine Camera, and the old videos stayed up as an archive.
R.I.P.
Meerkat
2015–2016
IndependentApp
Lived 19 months
“The star of SXSW 2015, broadcasting live before it was cool. Its team went on to build Houseparty, so the meerkat had a second act.”
Cause of death: Lost the live-video race to Twitter's Periscope; team pivoted to Houseparty
Born February 2015
Died September 30, 2016
R.I.P.
Paper
2014–2016
FacebookApp
Lived 2 years, 6 months
“The prettiest way to read your feed, folded neatly and put away. Its swipes and full screen stories lived on in other apps.”
Cause of death: Low downloads; its ideas moved into the main app and Instant Articles
Born February 3, 2014
Died July 29, 2016
R.I.P.
Rooms
2014–2015
FacebookApp
Lived 14 months
“Facebook's first place where you could skip your real name. A cozy forum for any topic, closed two days before Christmas.”
Cause of death: Closed along with Facebook Creative Labs, the team that built it
Born October 23, 2014
Died December 23, 2015
R.I.P.
Friendster
2003–2015
IndependentApp
Lived 12 years, 3 months
“The social network that taught the world to add friends. It got there first, and showed everyone else what to fix.”
Cause of death: Lost users to Myspace and Facebook, pivoted to games, then went dark
Born March 2003
Died June 14, 2015
R.I.P.
Secret
2014–2015
IndependentApp
Lived 14 months
“Raised $35 million to let friends speak without names. The founder closed it himself and handed money back, which is rarer than any secret.”
Cause of death: Founder shut it down, saying anonymous gossip was not what he set out to build
Born January 30, 2014
Died April 2015
R.I.P.
FriendFeed
2007–2015
FacebookApp
Lived 7 years, 6 months
“It gave us the Like button before Facebook did. Then it quietly kept the lights on for five more years for a small, loyal crowd.”
Cause of death: Usage kept falling for years after Facebook bought it in 2009
Born October 2007
Died April 9, 2015
R.I.P.
Orkut
2004–2014
GoogleApp
Lived 10 years, 8 months
“Brazil and India adored it, testimonials and all. It taught a generation to scrap, and then how to say goodbye.”
Cause of death: Outgrown by YouTube, Blogger and Google+, so Google bid it farewell
Born January 22, 2004
Died September 30, 2014
R.I.P.
MSN / Windows Live Messenger
1999–2013
MicrosoftApp
Lived 13 years, 9 months
“Nudges, winks and lovingly crafted status lines raised a generation of chatters. Messenger logged off and left a note saying it was Skype now.”
Cause of death: Microsoft bought Skype and moved Messenger users over to it
Born July 22, 1999
Died April 2013
R.I.P.
iTunes Ping
2010–2012
AppleFeature
Lived 2 years, 1 month
“A music social network tucked inside iTunes, unveiled by Steve Jobs himself. It followed your favorite artists right up to the end.”
Cause of death: A Facebook tie-in fell through and users never warmed to it
Born September 1, 2010
Died September 30, 2012
R.I.P.
Google Wave
2010–2012
GoogleApp
Lived 23 months
“Part email, part chat, part wiki. Nobody could quite say what it was, which was the charm and also the problem.”
Cause of death: Hard to explain and too few people using it
Born May 19, 2010
Died April 30, 2012
R.I.P.
Gowalla
2009–2012
IndependentAppCame back in 2023
Lived about 3 years
“The check-in app with the prettiest stamps and a soft spot for Austin. It closed during SXSW, the festival where it was born.”
Cause of death: Lost the check-in war to Foursquare; Facebook hired the team, not the app
Born 2009
Died March 2012
Relaunched in 2023 by its founder.
R.I.P.
Jaiku
2006–2012
GoogleApp
Lived 5 years, 6 months
“A Finnish microblog born the same year as Twitter. Twitter got the bird, Jaiku got our quiet respect.”
Cause of death: Closed in Google's 2011 product sweep as it focused on Google+
Born July 2006
Died January 15, 2012
R.I.P.
MSN / Windows Live Spaces
2004–2011
MicrosoftApp
Lived 6 years, 3 months
“MSN Spaces gave millions their first blog, sparkly backgrounds and all. When it closed, the posts packed up and moved to WordPress.”
Cause of death: Microsoft handed its blogs to WordPress.com and closed shop
Born December 2004
Died March 2011
R.I.P.
GeoCities
1994–2009
YahooApp
Lived 14 years, 11 months
“The web's first great neighborhood of homepages, visitor counters and under construction GIFs. Every page was a little home.”
Cause of death: Traffic kept falling as blogs and social networks took over
Born November 1994
Died October 26, 2009
The US service. GeoCities Japan ran until 2019.
R.I.P.
Pownce
2008–2008
IndependentApp
Lived 11 months
“It let you share files, links and events years before that was normal. Twitter won the race, and Pownce got two weeks to say goodbye.”
Cause of death: Media-rich Twitter rival with no revenue and stalled growth
Born January 22, 2008
Died December 15, 2008

How we dig a grave

A grave goes on this list when its owner shut it down for everyone: a whole app, or a feature inside a bigger one. An app that was folded into another one counts once the old one stopped working. A product that was banned by a government, or that only left one country, does not.

The death date is the day it stopped working for users, not the day the shutdown was announced. Dates are only as precise as the source: some stones say a day, some a month. Every grave links to its source, which is the company's own post or a news report from the time. If we could not confirm both dates, the grave is not here.

Last checked on October 9, 2026. Lifespans run from public launch to shutdown, so a beta that ran for years before launch is not counted.

What the graveyard says

73 graves, 58 of them whole apps and 15 of them features. Meta dug the most: 23. The busiest year for funerals was 2023, with 13.

The median grave lived 3 years, 8 months. The shortest life on the list is Hobbi at 5 months. The longest is Skype at 21 years, 8 months.

A pattern repeats across owners: a big platform copies a format that is working somewhere else, then retires its copy when people do not move over. Stories, short video and live audio rooms all left a trail of stones.

What it means for a small business

The feature you build your marketing on can be gone in a year. That is not a reason to skip the new thing. It is a reason not to keep your only copy of anything there.

Keep the original files of your photos and videos, not just the posted version.
Send people somewhere you own: your website, your email list, your booking page.
When a shutdown is announced, download your data before the date on the stone.
Post the same idea in a few formats, so one closing feature does not take all your reach with it.

Missing a grave, or spotted a wrong date?

Email us at admin@beevi.ai with the name, the owner and a link to the shutdown announcement or a news report. We add a grave once we can confirm both dates, and we fix a wrong date the same way.

You are welcome to share any tombstone. Each one has its own link (copy it from the grave) and downloads as an image. If you use one in an article, a link back to this page is all we ask.

Questions people ask

What social media apps have shut down?

This graveyard lists 73 of them, 58 apps and 15 features, each with a source. Some of the best known: Vine (2013 to 2017), Google+ (2011 to 2019), Periscope (2015 to 2021), Orkut (2004 to 2014), Path (2010 to 2018), Skype (2003 to 2025), Yahoo Answers (2005 to 2021), Fleets (2020 to 2021).

When did Vine shut down?

Vine shut down on January 17, 2017, when the app became Vine Camera. It launched on January 24, 2013. Creators left for Instagram and Snapchat, and Twitter was cutting costs. It lived 4 years.

When did Google+ shut down?

The consumer version of Google+ shut down on April 2, 2019. It ran from June 28, 2011 to April 2, 2019. Low engagement, then an API bug that could expose private profile data. It lived 7 years, 9 months.

Did Yik Yak come back?

Yes. Yik Yak shut down in May 2017 and came back under new owners in August 2021. It is on this list for its first death, and its stone says it came back.

Why do social media companies shut down apps and features?

The causes on the stones repeat: too few people used it, the owner folded it into the main app, or it copied a trend that faded, like disappearing Stories or live audio rooms. A few closed for cost, safety or legal reasons. Each grave here has its own cause of death and a link to the source.

How do you verify the dates?

Every death date comes from the company's own announcement or a news report from the time, linked on the grave. The date is the day it stopped working for users, as precise as the source allows. If we cannot confirm both the launch and the shutdown, the grave is not listed.

Can I share a tombstone or use it in an article?

Yes. Every grave has its own link and downloads as a square image. If you publish one, a link back to this page is all we ask.

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