For some time now I have been struggling with getting Gwibber working reliably with facebook. Since Gwibber was included by default in Ubuntu, usage has gone way up and we quickly exceeded our API request allocation with Facebook. Facebook allocations are per application, not per user, which means Facebook blocks API requests for everyone, not just the users which are refreshing too often, etc.
I have been desperately attempting to contact anyone from facebook to help figure out the best way to solve the problem and have been mostly ignored. I did get one reply from their developer relations stating that they don’t “support embedding video content in our website at this time”. Clearly they didn’t even read my email 🙁
I understand their need for allocations and to throttle as needed, however the numbers really don’t add up. They are really skewed, there is one API request that we make which is way over the allocation, but the others are barely even on the chart.
Facebook just announced “Operation Developer Love” where they state they will stop ignoring developers and triage bugs. Please help us get to the bottom of this by voting on this bug.
