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Is it possible to send an app-generated notification request to all users of a canvas app? I'm currently sending requests to individual users, but not the entire user base. I do not want to simply loop over all users and send an individual request to each. Furthermore, that seems SPAMish. In fact the whole concept seems SPAMish, so I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is simply, 'No, Facebook won't let you do that.'

Eric Heidelmark
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  • Eric, can you please share the code you used to send the requests? I mean with the loop. – Tony AS Feb 07 '12 at 22:42
  • Tony, I never built a loop like what I described. Contacting users in this manner violates Facebook's TOS. The best--and accepted--method for contacting users is to post to your App Fan Page's stream. Since I asked this question, Facebook creates and associates a Fan Page with each App that you create. When you post in the App's stream, it will appear in each user's News Feed. – Eric Heidelmark Feb 16 '12 at 16:33

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You could send to 20 users at a time with batch requests.

bkaid
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  • That's not true see: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/464/ **example of an app-generated request**. This allows you to send an app generated request to an individual user, which I have implemented. What I'm wondering is if you can send a request to all users, not just an individual. For example, to notify them that the rules have changed or something like that. – Eric Heidelmark Oct 07 '11 at 13:28
  • Sorry you're right I forgot about that post. They haven't updated the other documentation to reflect that. I doubt they will provide a way to mass-spam everyone. – bkaid Oct 07 '11 at 15:06
  • I'm going to mark this as the accepted answer, under the assumption of 'No, Facebook won't let you do that.' – Eric Heidelmark Oct 07 '11 at 20:19