Facebook app crashes his addiction to test its members – 01net.com

Cécile
BOLESSE

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Facebook is providing. If ever a conflict between it and Google, it wants its users to continue to access their news feed. But to ensure the loyalty of its members, the site has used an unorthodox way: he voluntarily inserted bugs making plant his app on Android to see how the members were trying to reconnect reports The Information .

The experiment took place several years ago and in a small country for a week, said an anonymous source. During this period, Facebook has encouraged its users to download app updates out of Google Play. This release contains bugs that crash the app made for several hours. From there, checked Facebook perseverance of its members to find a way to regain access to their news feed. “And those involved in this trial were constantly return” says the source of the US site. If the app did not open, they ended up turning to mobile site accessible from the browser installed on their smartphone.

Knowing that Facebook has 1.39 billion monthly active mobile users (figure of September 2015), the stakes are high. The social network can be reassured. If ever a conflict between it and Google – which is still highly unlikely, Facebook being the most important developer of Android apps available on Google Play – and the latter excludes from its app store, network members Social will look to the mobile site.

That said, one can not enjoy the process … which is quite customary Facebook! It is indeed not the first time that the company Mark Zuckerberg is accused of conduct studies on its members. In 2014, it was accused of having manipulated the information received by 700,000 users to study “emotional contagion”. After this revelation that had caused a stir, Facebook had assured her that scruterait carefully study process to improve.

Source: The Information

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