Facebook Blocks Instagram-Like App Vintage Camera
Facebook has not been hesitant to cut off data to applications that don't share back, as Vine and Yandex discovered recently. Now it has blocked a photo app — Vintage Camera — with filters similar to Facebook's Instagram, claiming that the app has received overwhelming negative feedback. But developer Presselite said negative feedback has been rare, and it feels that Facebook's ownership of Instagram influenced its decision.
Facebook has not been hesitant to cut off data to applications that don’t share back, as Vine and Yandex discovered recently. Now it has blocked a photo app — Vintage Camera — with filters similar to Facebook’s Instagram, claiming that the app has received overwhelming negative feedback. But developer Presselite said negative feedback has been rare, and it feels that Facebook’s ownership of Instagram influenced its decision.
Vintage Camera, an iOS app with roughly 20,000 monthly active users (according to sister site AppData), allows users to take photos and apply filters, and then post pictures to Facebook and Twitter.
The BBC wrote that Facebook has blocked Vintage Camera from its social graph data, noting that several users have left negative feedback for the app.
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