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Developers also abused the API to fill everyone’s feeds with game spam, so I can see why Facebook locked it down.
by TorKlingberg 10y ago
Developers also abused the API to fill everyone’s feeds with game spam, so I can see why Facebook locked it down.
- downandout 10y agoIronically, because Facebook requires in-game payments to be processed through their payments platform (for which they take 30%), much of the feed spamming specifically for games is allowed. Take the case of Slotomania - a mobile app that just sold for $4.4 billion last week [1]. Unless you manually uncheck a box in the UI each and every time it is presented - and I'm not exaggerating here - this game will wind up publishing something to your news feed approximately once per minute while you are playing the game. They printed $4.4 billion out of thin air using nothing more than aggressive spamming techniques. News feed spam that makes Facebook money is allowed. Spam that doesn't is not. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-30/shanghai-giant-led-group-buys-caesars-playtika-for-4-4-billion http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-30/shanghai-g...