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Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups

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Re: Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups

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Post by vineyardmike »

datadrivenangel wrote: post #9

Maybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spammers and scammers may still do. All this does is make it harder for regular people to interact with facebook on their own terms.

Is this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property?

I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?

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Post by I_Am_Nous »

>The entrepreneur pointed out this is not the first time Meta has done something like this.

>“A number of years ago [Meta] abruptly ended their Events API, with zero notice,” Burge says. “We just came in one day and everything was broken, we had thousands of support requests open from our customers and it almost destroyed our business that time as well.”

I sure hope their business has diversified a bit, because if Meta did it before they'll do it again.

Re: Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups

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Post by mathgladiator »

vineyardmike wrote: post #11
datadrivenangel wrote: post #9

Maybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spammers and scammers may still do. All this does is make it harder for regular people to interact with facebook on their own terms.

Is this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property? I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?

It's probably exceptionally tiny, I managed FB's web proxy for chat, and I was upgrading the protocol and discovered two people who wrote their own clients. I had to cut them off just they were not polluting the data I was gathering for reliability.

Re: Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups

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Post by strongpigeon »

vineyardmike wrote: post #11
datadrivenangel wrote: post #9

Maybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spammers and scammers may still do. All this does is make it harder for regular people to interact with facebook on their own terms.

Is this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property? I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?

Some companies whole business model is just that. See buffer.com. That being said, a lot of the stuff they do is now offered by Meta directly (e.g: scheduling post, responding to comments at scale)
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