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Millions flock to Xbox Live's new social-media features

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On November 24, 2009, 8:30 AM EST

After talking about it for several months, Redmond finally rolled out its social-media update for Xbox Live last week, allowing gamers to access Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, as well as the Zune marketplace, and it seems that many people have flocked to the new features.

According to company spokesman David Dennis, at least two million users have logged into Facebook, making it the most adopted of Xbox Live's new functions. Dennis said that half a million Last.fm accounts were created in the first 24 hours, and Xbox Live users streamed 120 million minutes of music.

Meanwhile, the Zune marketplace -- formerly called Xbox Live marketplace -- served videos to 1.7 million users in the first week available. No figures for Twitter's usage were offered, but Dennis did say that there have been "tweets from nearly every market where we have Xbox Live."

Check out Microsoft's rundown of the recent update for more information. If you have used the new features, share your thoughts on them in the comments. Is there anything you would change?

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jerry53
on November 27, 2009
6:43 PM

a plethora of new features.....who ever said that competition was bad for business ? after the revamp in hardware and the price cut from sony its really nice to to see the fear set in on the competition,i wish every other industry were like this.but,am i personally happy about this upgrade naah i acn do more than all this on my gaming pc

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