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Re:Facebook cuts off friend data from 'competing' startup Voxer by shoopy on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:09AM (#5083006)
IIRC This was Google's rationale in disallowing FB from importing contacts programmaticaly - FB wants to hoover contacts from everywhere but refuses to give data back.
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Re:Facebook cuts off friend data from 'competing' startup Voxer by entropyneur on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:59AM (#5083056)
Correct. That is pretty much exact reproduction of Google's statement when they cut off Facebook access to Gmail contacts. The irony.
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