NY Times Retires ‘Times People’ But Doesn’t Actually Tell The Users

So, I finally got a response to my inquiries about Times People, the NY Times social news network:

via email

Dear Stowe Boyd,

Thank you for contacting NYTimes.com.

We apologize for the inconvenience, however, we are no longer supporting Times People and are in the process of fully removing it from NYTimes.com.

We hope this helps.

Regards,

Andrew Smith
NYTimes.com
Customer Service
www.nytimes.com/help

Uh, thanks. Any chance to offload my posts, contacts, and other data? I guess not. I had 1075ish followers and was following a few dozen, now inaccessible.

By the way, major news services. If you launch something like this to great fanfare (or even small fanfare) it makes sense to make some noise when you shut the service down, tell people why, share the stats, and the thinking about your decision.

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Notes

  1. seo-victoria reblogged this from stoweboyd
  2. nyfit reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    Ha. I spent like a total twenty minutes looking for how to save articles in the TimesPeople section today and yesterday....
  3. graisinbrand reblogged this from soupsoup
  4. chrisamico reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    So this is where...TimesPeople went:
  5. amzam reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    Good point. Duly noted.
  6. davidandrewjohnson reblogged this from stoweboyd
  7. mandyjenkins reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    No more TimesPeople,...seems. Nice of them
  8. caterpillarcowboy reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Google+ before there was Google+? I liked it as well, but the product implementation was just a tiny bit off, which...
  9. donohoe reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I’m waiting with bated breath for Bill Keller
  10. soupsoup reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    I was a fan of Times People, kind of sad to see it go. Wondering what the thinking was behind getting rid of it.
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