No More Facebook or Twitter on Xbox 360 Dashboard
If you've applied the latest Xbox dashboard update, you may notice that a few things are missing...
The latest Xbox dashboard update, which is still in the process of rolling out, is conspicuously absent of Facebook and Twitter.
The apps are still functional and available to those who had already downloaded them before the update rolled out. However, users who didn't use the apps pre-update won't be able to download the apps.
Microsoft confirmed the removal of the apps from the dashboard, stating, "We are retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps.
"Xbox Live subscribers will have the ability to access these sites through Internet Explorer on Xbox, available through the Web Hub located on the new dashboard."
Considering the hassle it is to type anything on the Xbox interface, not to mention the fact that users readily have access to Twitter and Facebook via other digital mediums, Microsoft phased out the apps probably due to a lack of popularity. No doubt most Xbox users won't even notice the change.

Tweety: You know, I lose more putty tats that way!
Angle the left stick up for an A, angle it up+right diagonally for a B, right for a C, down-right for a D, etc.
A-H on left stick
G-O on right stick
P-W on pad
X is X, Y is Y, Z is... whatever. Who uses Z anyway.
Would take adjusting, but would be WAY better than scrolling to each letter.
go search for "steam daisywheel"
They put in IE. Go to twitter.com. Problem solved.
Before people say just get XBL. I don't use my xbox enough.
One of the parents was quoted as saying, I thought I was keeping her off Facebook.
Never even downloaded it. Don't have a facebook and the only reason I have a twitter account was so that I could participate in a Cnet giveaway about 2 or 3 years back.
I also don't game online terribly often, don't use Netflix hardly at all (both on PC and Xbox), don't use Youtube on Xbox or pretty much any other online service.
Honestly I have a Gold Account because of the Family pack as both my brother and sister occasionally use the service and it made sense as well as the odd gaming binge here and there.
EDIT: Honestly my Xbox doesn't get a terribly large amount of use if I'm honest, at least not from me. I have a single friend that has a functioning Xbox and my brother has one so I occasionally buy games specifically with the intent to share them, either locally or by lending them the game.
Let's be honest here, PC gaming has a lot of things but what it really doesn't have is local coop in major titles like Borderlands 2. Sure you could juryrig it by running more than one instance but that is so astronomically harder than pressing A on the Splitscreen button in the main menu.