Facebook apps to begin feedback based notifications

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Facebook apps to begin feedback based notifications

by Romeo Wahed Feb 7th 2008

Facebook application notifications to be feedback based

For those who have hoped for less application madness on Facebook, an announcement on the Facebook Developers blog should be of interest to you: a reward system for applications that are "compelling."

So, instead of giving applications a limit of 40 notifications per user per day, the amount of notifications sent out will adjust in accordance with the feedback an application gets. The more an application gets ignored, reported as spam, or hidden, the less notifications users will receive. The aim of this little adjustment is to reduce notifications that users will find to be of a "spammy" nature, while encouraging developers to make applications that users will want their friends to know about.

Whether that means that notifications of friends adding or using applications that have gotten a "bad rep" will start disappearing, is still not clear. But, it's reasonable to think that some of the notification "noise" will be reduced.

In the meantime, until the update is put in place, developers will be provided with two new "Insight" statistics tabs, to give them a better understanding of how users are responding to their applications. Users can expect to start seeing changes as early as next week.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: applications, developers, facebook

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

keeves said 3:29AM on 2-08-2008

i think facebook should ban all mandatory invites when signing up for new applications, and instead of making it the norm to invite everyone when you first install an application, require that you must have used it for say a week first.

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