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That feels like a very small number to me.

• mgkimsal 8y ago
  agreed, although... "Facebook will investigate all the apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform policies in 2014" There may not be a large number of apps that "had access to large amounts of information" before 2014.
  • dumbfounder 8y ago
    The strategy of these firms is probably to launch a series of apps that run the spectrum of popularity, from thousands to millions of users. Banning the big ones puts a dent in the problem, but a company could have released 50 apps with 10,000 users each that sucked down profiles of 1 million people each (via calls to friends' data). My guess is that each of those would not qualify as "large" by Facebook standards.
• BonesJustice 8y ago
  > To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended It doesn't really indicate how far along they are in their investigation. It says they've investigated thousands of apps so far, but we don't know (from this post, at least) how many are still pending review.
• r3bl 8y ago
  That's a ridiculously high percentage: 200 out of "thousands" tested. Judging by their use of "thousands", I'd bet that the number is somewhere between 2000 (making 1 in 10 suspended) and 8000 (making 1 in 40 suspended). Now if that number was out of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, then the number would indeed be quite small.
  • cjhopman 8y ago
    However, it's possible that they prioritized this early investigation to look first at certain categories of apps that may be more likely to get suspended. Also, it's possible that they are just being really conservative in suspending apps. The suspension sounds like a possibly temporary thing while they investigate them further.