In the aftermath of the situation with Twitter’s Vine app and Yandex’s Wonder, where Facebook literally blocked them, by not allowing them access to the site, Facebook’s Justin Osofsky, Director, Platform Partnerships and Operations, has given an explanation for this act, but hasn’t addressed Vine or Wonder directly. Facebook’s explanation was given in a blog post. The social networking site has blocked Vine’s friend finding feature and Wonder from accessing it’s data.
“For the vast majority of developers building social apps and games, keep doing what you’re doing,” said Osofsky in the blog post. “Our goal is to provide a platform that gives people an easy way to login to your apps…easily share what they’re doing in your apps…this is how our platform has been used by the most popular categories of apps..”
But, most probably addressing Vine and Wonder indirectly, he wrote, “For a much smaller number of apps that are using Facebook to either replicate our functionality or bootstrap their growth in a way that creates little value for people on Facebook, such as not providing users an easy way to share back to Facebook, we’ve had policies against this that we are further clarifying today.” For further details as to how exactly they have clarified their policies, you can check out the Facebook Platform Policies.