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Facebook limits users to 10 posts per day; says it’s no bug!

There is two ways to post a story on your wall:

1. Login to facebook.com and type it in Facebook’s Publisher. 
2. Use any 3rd party application on your iPhone, your PC/Mac, or even a 3rd party service like RSS Graffiti to post without being logged in.

As of March 23rd 2010, method (2) is limited to 10 posts per application per day! While most 3rd party application developers (and of course users) have been alarmed by their inability to explain or bypass the literally millions of “request limit reached” errors they have been suddenly getting, Facebook has been late in picking up on the issue.

Nine days after this issue surfaced and under increasing pressure to explain the situation, Facebook issued a generic response via their technical support stuff saying this is a new policy they have been applying and that this limit is here to stay.

The Twitter equivalent to this new Facebook policy would be for Twitter to require you to login to Twitter.com to be able to send more than 10 tweets per day and limit the number of tweets you can send per day using any app like Tweetdeck or Twitterfeed to 10.

No how reasonable does this sound to you? 

My personal opinion? Either Facebook support stuff have no clue what they are talking about, or Facebook is moving out of the news and status sharing market.

I think it’s about time the media picks up on this story.

FYI, please find the relevant talk in Facebook here: http://bit.ly/7624Talk and the related Facebook bug report here: http://bit.ly/7624Bug