VIETNAM: Flappy Bird creator pulls the plug on his own app

The creator of the wildly popular game app Flappy Bird deleted it the App Store and Google Play early Monday, saying in a tweet that the game "ruins my simple life." Nguyen Ha Dong, a 29-year-old from Vietnam, released the game in 2013, but was thrust into the spotlight recently when the game began taking off. The free app was making $50,000 a day from in-app ads, although some were accusing Dong of artificially increasing his download tallies. 

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