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Updated FiOS Twitter and Facebook widgets add onscreen keyboard, not friends or followers

August 5th, 2009

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Just a few weeks after debuting its Twitter and widgets , Verizon is refreshing them by giving viewers an onscreen cellphone-style keyboard to mash out their own tweets and status updates from the remote. Though we wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to just use ones actual cellphone to spread your inane viewing habits amongst those unlucky enough to count you as a friend, the services have apparently been quite popular so far, with millions of Tweets and photos viewed since it was released. As usual, the free apps can be found in the Widget Bazaar, where Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir will be looking for more tools that “engage viewers” once the SDK is released later this year. Not close to your TV (or an area with FiOS TV service ?) check out a few screens of the new functionality below. Filed under: , Entertainment Updated FiOS Twitter and widgets add onscreen keyboard, not friends or followers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

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