Massive Facebook User And Page Data Store Is Shut Down

Pete Warden wasn’t looking to get embroiled in a legal battle when he launched his page data tool which tracked associations between various Facebook Pages. That’s why the page data product he built was subsequently destroyed. It’s not that the data wasn’t useful but Pete was using a crawler to collect data which included various profile information from hundreds of millions of Facebook users.

Want to know which Facebook Pages have similar fans? How about the distribution of Facebook users around the country? The information was incredibly useful, yet Facebook’s legal team had the project shut down.