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In what appears to be a major event for application developer Slide, Top Friends, the third largest application by daily active users and installs, has disappeared from the Facebook Platform.
As of 12:01am Pacific Time:
- Going to the Top Friends app page redirects to the Facebook home page
- Searching the application directory for “Top Friends” yields nothing
- The Top Friends box is missing from all profile pages
While Platform performance is expected to be intermittent from time to time, this is either a pretty big accident or significant action taken by Facebook. We’ll have more soon.
Update: Facebook has just confirmed that this is an intentional suspension. Facebook says,
We have suspended the Top Friends application while we investigate violations of our Terms of Service. We recognize this is a popular application and don’t take this action lightly.
Apparently, Top Friends was allowing access to non-friends’ personal information in a way that violated the TOS. This is a pretty siginificant disciplinary action by Facebook. As of 9:00am, Top Friends is still not available.
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June 26th, 2008 at 2:20 am
/topeight/ canvas url of Top Friends is showing ad of Human Pets app..
June 26th, 2008 at 2:30 am
[...] may have changed. A hugely popular Slide application called Top Friends (review here) has simply vanished from Facebook’s site. Users who had installed it don’t see it, searches for it in the directory turn up empty, and [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 2:57 am
[...] even access it through the the original app link, nor find it in searches. TechCrunch and InsideFacebook are reporting the same. It looks like this wasn’t planned by Slide either, considering the [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 3:40 am
[...] reported by Inside Facebook, the Top Friends application page redirects to Facebook home page; it’s not visible in [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 5:24 am
[...] to Inside Facebook, the Top Friends page now directs you the Facebook homepage, the application is no more visible in [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 5:44 am
[...] しかし、今夜それも変わったのかもしれない。Slideの超人気アプリケーションTop Friendes（レビューはここ）があっさりとFacebookのサイトから姿を消してしまった。インストールしていたユーザーの視界からは消え、アプリを検索しても見つからず、このアプリのURLに飛ぶとFacebookのトップページにリダイレクトされる。あたかも存在していなかったかのようだ。 [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am
power has gone to the heads of the idiots - when it returns i better not lose everything or i will have words with customer ‘robotic’ services
June 26th, 2008 at 11:52 am
[...] may have changed. A hugely popular Slide application called Top Friends (review here) has simply vanished from Facebook’s site. Users who had installed it don’t see it, searches for it in the directory turn up empty, and the [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
wow, i can’t believe top friends just vanished!!! i noticed this a couple of hours ago. I believe that this app is one of the best ones, it’s a facebook classic! it was like the first app I ever added, and i opened my account more than a year ago (before all the stupid apps were created and when inviting 15 friends was not a MUST)…
June 26th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
That’s not the only thing that disappeared. All of the apps made by facebook - only two left - are gone. Including my fave, flash box.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
[...] via [...]
June 27th, 2008 at 7:00 am
[...] I’m surprised that the application is still down. Facebook provided Justin Smith with the following update regarding the issue once news of the application shut down was released: [...]
June 29th, 2008 at 4:41 am
[...] Facebook in their article: Top Friends Vanishes From Facebook Platform said: Apparently, Top Friends was allowing access to non-friends’ personal information in a way [...]
June 29th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
why the facebook application platform will continue to slow down:
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July 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
[...] now been 5 days since Slide’s Top Friends application disappeared from the Facebook Platform as a result of an apparent Developer Terms of Service violation. This suspension is the most severe [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
[...] days ago, the Facebook Platform policy team made waves throughout the developer community by suspending Slide’s Top Friends application, the third largest application by daily active users, for a privacy violation of the Developer [...]
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
[...] days ago, the Facebook Platform policy team made waves throughout the developer community by suspending Slide’s Top Friends application, the third largest application by daily active users, for a privacy violation of the Developer [...]
July 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
[...] - it had just vanished from Facebook with no notice. The problem, Facebook said, was, according to InsideFacebook, “Top Friends was allowing access to non-friends’ personal information in a way that [...]
July 6th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:34 am
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July 16th, 2008 at 12:59 am
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July 25th, 2008 at 1:05 am
[...] June 26th, Top Friends was the first major app to disappear completely from the Facebook platform. The application was [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 3:37 am
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July 25th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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September 6th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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