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Verizon must think we don’t get enough social-media updating via our computers or hand-held devices, with its new plan to bring those types of services to our TVs. Just announced today, Verizon FiOS Tv has worked with social media giants Facebook, Twitter, ESPN and a handful of other video sites (no YouTube yet) to bring an application store to its TV menu. Now, subscribers to its TV service can update their statuses, look at their friends’ photos, watch internet video and find out the latest Tweets of the stars of the show they are currently watching. But unlike most app stores we have seen from Apple and Palm via the iPhone and the Pre, Verizon’s TV Widget Bazaar store is very limited and will not have the high number of downloads users would be used to. Something that will probably change if this is successful. So, for Facebook and Twitter mega-fiends this might be something worth changing services over, but for the rest of us moving from the couch to our computer desk doesn’t sound too painful. Does it?