Comments on: Facebook Application Gating and Gifting Features Shift to Fit Changing Platform Policies

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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:33:39 +0000

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By: Ric Moore

Ric Moore — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:41:40 +0000

I’m not sure the best gifting practice would be to only send gifts to active players, at least not in viral terms. Gifting the inactive and friends without the app might incentivise some of the to play.
However, I look forward to Facebook removing that massive list of notifications that force you to jump between Facebook and apps for each gift, just to eliminate the notification from Facebook.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:33:20 +0000

The reason companies are “getting away” with gating content by the number of neighbors you have is because users do have another way to get the content: by paying real money.