Facebook updates developer policy after Vine scuffle

IDG News Service - Facebook has updated its policies for third-party application developers in a bid to explain why Twitter’s new Vine video-sharing app is unable to access Facebook’s friend-finder tool.

While the updated policies don’t mention Vine by name, the biggest changes appear designed to explain why Facebook decided to block the app, a move that sparked a wave of criticism this week.

In a blog post Friday, Facebook’s Justin Osofsky, director of platform partnerships and operations, said the “clarifications” were published after the site received questions about its policies over the past few days.

“For the vast majority of developers building social apps and games, keep doing what you’re doing,” he wrote. But a “much smaller number of apps” violate its policy by using Facebook to “replicate our

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