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Facebook Invites Get Restricted, Developers Cry

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Last night Facebook finally turned on the invite restrictions that they have been speaking about for the past few weeks. I went and checked out a few of my apps all of which had now been limited to 12 invites per day. This drastic decrease in invitation limits is strangling the virality of [...% ... Continue reading »

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  • Mary Specht

    1 year ago

    "Without investing in advertising campaigns, new applications will find it increasingly difficult to experience much growth at all."

    Maybe a push for Social Ads is part of this? (Doubt that's the main driver, though--I imagine they genuinely were trying to improve the experience as app spam speeds up Facebook fatigue).
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Yes, they are trying to monetize the platform, and appease platform moguls like Rockyou and Slide are a) don't want competition and b) want to make money off apps that want users. I give Facebook 1-2 more years of relevance.
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  • David Berkowitz

    1 year ago

    I'm seeing a mixed bag as far as invites go. Plane Crazy is only letting me invite 5 friends, while Premier Football is letting me invite 20 and Scrabulous says 15.
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  • Jason McGowan

    1 year ago

    Nick, our application (we're related)has had up to 25 per day and currently is at 15. I suppose it depends the day for us... I hope this helps.

    Jason

    apps.facebook.com/we_r_related
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  • Sam

    1 year ago

    It is silly at best... Turning the screws on news feeds makes sense because those are not necessarily user generated...

    Limiting invites which are user generated is odd. Basically Facebook is telling users (not application) that they can not do something as basic as sharing something with their friends... I mean is that not what social networking is all about? Perhaps instead of limiting what users and can do Facebook should think of improving invitation relevance... one though could be to rank invitation from people who are more relevant in ones life, though I am sure there are other options.

    I feel that with this one Facebook is really punishing the wrong group...
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