My Facebook app, Profile Banner rose to over 1.25m users in less than a month. Facebook just shut it down for violating their terms. I was helping users tag themselves in photos that were not of themselves (possibly).<p>For sure a contributing factor was that I also allowed people to tag their friends in banners too, but I gave people an easy way to block themselves from that. And a tiny percentage of users ever used this feature. Really, I thought FB would at least contact me requesting a change before taking this drastic action. I'm naive.<p>Does anyone have any advice on how I might be able to recover from this?<p>FYI, HN user gdeglin called that this was going to happen. I guess a similar thing happened to one of his apps.
Find the section of the T&C that most likely deals with why you were terminated. Fix your app to address that concern. Grovel and pray.<p>Whatever you do, don't slam it up on another url and keep going - because they'll take more drastic action - perhaps banning all of your apps.<p>I know an app that was in a grey area, he adjusted his app and was reinstated in a few days.