A lot of the changes FB made were breaking changes that occured overnight a few weeks back that they didn't warn any developers about... That's a pretty good in

A lot of the changes FB made were breaking changes that occured overnight a few weeks back that they didn't warn any developers about... That's a pretty good indication of how much they care about their developer ecosystem. I wonder if this will hurt them more than they gambited for though. They've clearly thrown a lot of resources at the messenger API to encourage third parties to make bots. It also seems like WhatsApp's strategy to monetize is increasly focused on businesses somehow integrating with the platform. As a developer, though I know WhatsApp still operates as a separate entity it's still ultimately owned by FB. And even though FB and WhatsApp still have incredibly dominant market share, stuff like this makes them look like very flaky foundations for third parties to build anything over... GDPR is going to hit FBs bottom line in europe and all their growth is coming from developing markets where user ARPUs are tiny... Long story short, I don't think times are going to be sweetness and light for FB in the near term, and so this is a time where they'll want as many friends as possible. But stunts like this won't win them any friends in developers!