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'Flappy Bird' Creator Says He's Shutting The Game Down, Putting Us All Out Of Our Misery

Suddenly popular, super hard, super addictive smartphone game Flappy Bird is going away.

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Game creator Dong Nguyen tweeted this at 2 p.m. ET: "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore."

"It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore."

Reading through the rest of Nguyen's tweets, it's pretty clear he considers himself an "indie" game-maker who never set out to build an app that would get him so much attention.

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Flappy Bird

He's been getting a lot of attention, much of it from addicted gamers frustrated by how insanely hard it is to get that dang little bird through the dang opening between the pipes.

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Earlier today he tweeted: "I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it."

Nguyen must hate it a lot. The app is generating $50,000 in sales per day.

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