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kevt on Feb 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook

Anyone know what can get an app shutdown by facebook? Apparently, Dan received this from fb: "For example, if an application is making an inordinate number of stream.publish calls and receiving a large number of user reports". What exactly is an inordinate number of post? Was Breakup Notifier spamming signed up users' post stream to get the word out? Or was it just an extraordinary number of api calls that FB was not use to getting?

kmfrk on Feb 23, 2011 [–]

I'm sure Facebook will refer to some perfectly vague rules. My guess is that its transgression was to highlight how creepy Facebook is or can be.

albox on Feb 23, 2011 | [–]

Isn't it creepy with the 'See Friendship' feature already?

I wouldn't be surprised if facebook came up with a similar 'Breakup Notifier' feature soon..

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