Facebook Adds New Platform API to Easily Query Mutual Friends

Yesterday, Facebook added a new API call and FQL table to query mutual friend relationships between two users. The concept has been around for years on Facebook, but now applications have access to this same information without having to perform expensive queries on their databases.

As with most data accessed using the API or FQL tables, this information is still held to the Platform’s policy on data usage: in most cases, data may not be stored for more than 24 hours.

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