Flappy Bird appears to be closer to making a comeback in the App Store following a feed on Twitter with its creator Dong Nguyen.
"Are you going to put flappy bird back on App Store?" Twitter User painfullpacman asked Flappy Bird maker Dong Nguyen on Twitter.
"Yes. But not soon," Nguyen said in a post back via his Twitter account.
"Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," Nguyen told Forbes at the time he took the app down in what he envisioned to be a permanent decision until recently. "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird. It's gone forever," Nguyen told Forbes.
Flappy Bird was reportedly not made to handle a large influx of usage when it was launched May 24, 2013 on iOS.
Nguyen took down the game Feb. 11 in what was a permanent decision at the time.
"I cannot take this anymore," Nguyen said in a post on his Twitter account. The app was then gone by the Sunday according to CNET.
The app had over 50 million downloads, and earned creator Dong Nguyen $50,000 a day in income from advertisements CNET reported Tuesday.
Remarks from Nintendo did not reportedly influence Nguyen's decision Forbes reported
A game enthusiast attempted to bring back the infamous Flappy Bird app through a petition on whitehouse.gov after its maker took it down Feb. 8 CNET reported at the time.
"The reason Flappy Bird is so popular is that it happens to be something different from mobile games today, and is a really good game to compete against each other," Nguyen told The Verge. "People in the same classroom can play and compete easily because [Flappy Bird] is simple to learn, but you need skill to get a high score," Nguyen told The Verge.
