Facebook have decided to shut down Breakup Notifier, a popular
relationship tracker which is used to monitor the relationship status of
chosen friends. The application sent users an email notification
whenever one of their friends changed relationship status, meaning that
interested parties could make advances whenever someone they liked was
‘single’ again.
Dan Loewenherz, the creator of the software package received a
message from Facebook explaining why they had disabled the application
on the site.
To ensure positive user experiences on Platform, we run routine
automated screens that take user feedback, machine learning and various
algorithms into account and remove spammy applications. For example, if
an application is making an inordinate number of stream.publish calls
and receiving a large number of user reports, it may be removed by our
automated systems to protect the user experience and the Platform
ecosystem.
Loewenherz seems to be rather miffed at the events which have removed
his software from Facebook’s services, saying that none of his emails
or calls to Facebook have even been returned. Facebook also appear to
have disabled his personal account.
His Twitter page shows “Hey everyone, Facebook e-mailed saying that
they’ve disabled us… We are working for a fix, but ask @facebook to put
us back online!”.
A Facebook representative has said that the company is looking
further into the issue with Breakup Notifier. This application has been
immensely popular with over 100,000 users adopting it within the first
24 hours of it being launched.
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