Facebook Breaks All Bit.ly Links, Marks Them as Abusive [UPDATED]
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Don’t try to use Bit.ly links on Facebook (); they have been marked by the world’s largest social network as abusive, leading to dead end pages and frustrated users.
Posting Bit.ly links on Facebook is currently impossible. If you attempt to share a link with your network, you are presented with the following message:
“This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy. Let us know if you think this is an error.”
Existing Bit.ly links are also affected. If you attempt to click on a Bit.ly link, you will be led to a Facebook abuse page (screenshot above) stating that Facebook users have reported the link as abusive.
Bit.ly is the world’s most popular URL shortener, so this problem likely affects millions of links all across Facebook. It’s unlikely the world’s largest social network would block these links purposely. Instead, it seems that Facebook’s algorithms have marked all links from the Bit.ly domain as dangerous and abusive.
We’ve reported the issue to Facebook and requested more details. We’ll update you as more information becomes available.
Update: Bit.ly links are working properly again. We haven’t yet heard from Facebook as to what might have caused these links’ being blocked in the first place.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Facebook Breaks All Bit.ly Links, Marks Them as Abusive [UPDATED]
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