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Facebook removes Fan Check app after malware rumors
In the meantime, Facebook has removed Fan Check from the app directory. Visiting its URL just shows a note explaining that Facebook had an issue with the third-party developer and is investigating it. Although Fan Check is only "temporarily suspended," Mashable reported (before the app was shut down) that Facebook told them it had disabled some functionality it found questionable in Fan Check. Seeing who's viewing whose profiles has always been an internal feature for Facebook, and perhaps they object to an app that aims to make it publicly available.

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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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sRc said 3:42PM on 9-15-2009
Fan Check never did see who was "viewing" your profile, it did a tally based on the number of times a person in your friend list made a comment to a statement on your profile.
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