It looks like the people at Facebook took note of our article this morning and decided to disable the application “for misuse of notifications and other communication channels.” I’m sure they’ll be back as soon as they fix that but the exponential growth isn’t likely. It is somewhat surprising that the application was able to attract close to 1 million users prior to Facebook taking notice.
Building an automated warning system would be useful. Alternatively, monitoring the fastest growing applications over in our application statistics area helps to provide a clue. We regularly see fast growing applications that appear to provide little value to the users. Most of those applications don’t make it beyond a few thousand users but many of them do.
It’s clear that Facebook is keeping tabs on all these applications but they are being pushed to their limits with the rapid expansion of the platform via Facebook Connect. It’s great to see that Facebook is at least continuing to be proactive about spam applications. While we’re at it, are there any other spam applications that you know of?
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Still there. Still spamming.
Comment by Tom — December 9, 2008 @ 6:15 am
"My Friends" managed to post itself as a news story in my feed after I clicked on a notification, without first being authorized. And the app itself has no apparent value.. IMHO
Comment by maxmiles — December 9, 2008 @ 6:36 am
FINALLY! I am SO sick of this stupid app sending me dozens of notifications all the time. SO ANNOYING.
Comment by Mimzy — December 9, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
This application has affected my computer. What is the extent that it will do to my computer? What can I do to stop this?
Comment by Lynn — December 10, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Snowball War! (as it's called…not Snowball Wars!…have to be specific as there are a few)…is still randomly picking off friends lists and sending it's stupid fucking snowballs from friends to friends who are not even signed up on the app or throwing the snow balls.
FACEBOOK — DO SOMETHING!! SHUT IT DOWN!!
Comment by omgirl718 — January 11, 2009 @ 6:57 am