Archive for June, 2008

New App Metrics for Facebook Developers

Facebook today announced in a note to developers that new application engagement metrics will soon become available in the Facebook Developer application. Specifically, the following new metrics will be added:
Number of active users during the past 7 days
Number of active users during the past 30 days
Number of canvas page views
Number of unique canvas page viewers
Number […]

Maybe Twitter Can Upgrade Their Server Infrastructure

Social media channel of the hour, Twitter, announced that they have received $15 million in another round of funding backed by original investor Union Square Ventures and (reportedly) Spark Ventures.
I am really happy for them.
Maybe now they can afford to find a team of engineers that can scale the platform and fix their infrastructure. Twitter […]

Facebook Still Disabling Accounts

I have heard from over 40 people via two posts over the last fews months about Facebook disabling accounts. It seems that Facebook is still having trouble differentiating between actual spammers and those who are not spammers, but may be conducting activities that are “spam-like.” I have long feared this to be a problem because […]