Saturday, March 15, 2008

Facebook messaging

Facebook is to launch a new instant messaging service (TechCrunch story here). I'm wondering also if they are about to launch some sort of email integration for their messages too. My fblocalmail ads that were running on Facebook have suddenly stopped, and new ones I try to get running have been rejected, even though they don't break the terms as far as I can see. The official rejection reason is below:

This ad includes references to Facebook. As per sections 2 and 8 of Facebook's Advertising Guidelines, ads are not permitted to use Facebook logos, trademarks, site terminology, or refer to Facebook in the title, body, image, or destination URL.

and here's the ad text:

Manage Your Messages
Use your email client to send, receive, filter and organize messages, online and offline.

Now what is especially strange is that I have an identical ad running on Facebook that hasn't been rejected. Also, no matter how high I raise the click bid for that ad, it never gets any impressions. Of course it may be possible that my ads are being rejected because someone at Facebook checked out the fblocalmail website and didn't like the fact that it allows Facebook messages to be managed externally, but it may also be that they buried fblocalmail because they are planning some similar functionality themselves.

I just find it strange that my ads ran for a few days before suddenly not getting any impressions.


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