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Wow, this is tough for one of the biggest Facebook application developers, Slide. Their hugely popular application Top Friends simply…vanished.
As reported by Inside Facebook, the Top Friends application page redirects to Facebook home page; it's not visible in profile pages, and searching for it yields no results.
This could be a temporary glitch or a deliberate action from Facebook. Both are bad for anyone that considers basing their business model on a Facebook application. If it's some sort of temporary bug, it's bad because a glitch can erase your entire app from existence. If it's deliberate action from Facebook, it's bad because there was no notice on such an action, and everyone - the users as well as Slide - have been left high and dry with one sweep from mighty Facebook. We'll have more as the story unfolds.
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