Some Facebook users sending messages about the Haitian earthquake may have been a bit dismayed at times this week to find that they'd been booted off the site for suspicion of spamming.
Facebook acknowledged today that some users had been dropped from the site because they had been sending out so many messages after an earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday that the site mistook them for spammers.
Facebook's mechanism to automatically detect potential spammers was triggered by an avalanche of messages going out about Haiti, said Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook.
Noyes said that only a small number of the site's 350 million users were dispatched from the site. He did note that users are warned when they approach the cut-off limit.
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Facebook acknowledged today that some users had been dropped from the site because they had been sending out so many messages after an earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday that the site mistook them for spammers.
Facebook's mechanism to automatically detect potential spammers was triggered by an avalanche of messages going out about Haiti, said Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook.
Noyes said that only a small number of the site's 350 million users were dispatched from the site. He did note that users are warned when they approach the cut-off limit.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145278/