Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we announced Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android and Native Login, New Features to Mobile App Install Ads, and published a spotlight on SoundCloud

New Page metrics for benchmarking available via API

We’re starting to roll out like count and people talking about this (PTAT) metrics for all Pages via the Graph API and FQL. As we announced in October, this enables marketers to benchmark their own fans and PTAT in a given country against other Pages and monitor how country-level like counts change over time. For example, now a European car company can see how many people are talking about their brand versus a competitor’s brand on a country-by-country basis. You’ll be able to access this via the new ‘global_brand_like_count’ and ‘global_brand_talking_about_count’ fields on the Insights object.

Upcoming breaking changes

As announced in October, the following changes will go into effect on January 9th, 2013:

• Removing unused splash_screen_url and gamebar_image_url properties
• Removing Dashboard REST API methods
• Using canonical URLs when fetching data using link_stat table

Check out the Developer Roadmap for all updates on breaking changes.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between Wednesday, December 12 and Wednesday, December 19

Bugs activity

• 288 bugs were reported
• 72 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 24 bugs were by design
• 37 bugs were fixed
• 160 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• Creating a Video.Watches Action stopped working
• Graph feed post strips necessary app_data parameter from link to tab app
• Like box plugin is showing duplicate posts
• "Preview Login Dialog" not working
• Insights end point returning error
• JavaScript Like Implementation Misbehaves on Mobile
• Unable to create an app for existing page
• Login does not post back to page in Mobile Safari for iPhone with JS SDK
• FQL Thread Table is throwing an exception
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/stream broken
• Targeted posts not visible on timeline, but I'm an admin
• Targeting criteria missing
• No Insights data since 11/18
• Like box is not showing faces
• FQL Event Doc missing timezone info
• "like" should be "likes" for DELETE album likes
• 503 error for any link in rallc.com in http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
• Improper closing tag for com.facebook.LoginActivity in the last line of the section "Link to the SDK project and configure the Facebook app ID"
• Sample overview for extending tokens seems to have nothing to do with the topic
• Grammatical Error
• Copy/Paste mistake?
• OAuth Exception while accessing the page via API
• "March 2013 Breaking Changes" link in Advanced Settings is broken
• Can't get the feed connection of my Facebook page - An unknown error has occurred
• Page post ads fail with "Feed Invalid Data"
• Creating or Adding actions to Open Graph results in error
• unable to add/remove profiles from a group associated to app roles
• Link to next page does. Page does not exist.
• Register a new company - Error 500
• Documenting Native iOS Action for Submission
• Test user - no data in new iOS app
• Automated System Disables Apps With Good Feedback

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 379 questions asked
• 110 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 31 answered, 28% answered rate
• 75 replied, 68% reply rate