Comments on: Facebook Sends Test Message Saying Hi; Developers Tingle With Excitement

By: Krista

Krista — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:11:06 +0000

When I check facebook using my ipod touch I can see the test message.. when I log in with my computer, it’s nowhere to be seen and for over a day now it’s said “1 new message”. Argh.

By: Mike Bosch

Mike Bosch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:36:13 +0000

I got the message and thought it was some virus / scam and didn’t click on it. How did we rule out a security hole already?

By: http://www.compareuklifeinsurance.com

http://www.compareuklifeinsurance.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:54:35 +0000

You were right. It fortunately reduced twitter PR.

By: Waheed Barghouthi

Waheed Barghouthi — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:19:50 +0000

Apparently there is something wrong going there, im still getting 1 new message in the inbox while there is no new messages, please fix

By: Huhu

Huhu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:36:37 +0000

Actually there are 4 million members, it’s a bug that’s showing 2000 members, if you switch the tabs in the group to “officers” you will see that there are 3.9 million members in that group.

By: Confucius

Confucius — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:22:21 +0000

I can’t believe my RSS reader was clogged up with this test blog post…

By: group product

group product — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:29:03 +0000

+1 ditto

By: Tzar

Tzar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:40:08 +0000

TC will write about anything that happens on facebook or twitter, really. Absolutely anything. Even some useless pointless bug reports. Shocker.

By: Spencer Schoeben

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:38:19 +0000

I have no idea if this is related in any way…

In my Facebook inbox, I have one unread message but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. It’s kind of annoying.

I am a developer, and am part of the developer group but I didn’t receive any text messages.

By: Sanjay Sharma

Sanjay Sharma — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:41:04 +0000

It was a virus. All your base are belong to us. Wahahaha!

By: swag

swag — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:09:15 +0000

Michael, didn’t your mother tell you that if you didn’t have anything good to say…

By: BillyG

BillyG — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:52:26 +0000

How do you get “What I love about this story isn’t the accidental message…” from “But our guess is this was just what it said it was – a test message that was sent out by accident?”

So, in one sentence, you’ve decided and broadcast that, yes, it was an accident!

I got the msg too, and promptly disgarded it, but leave it to you to make a post out of it!

By: group product

group product — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:34:54 +0000

Currently fb’s group product literally sucks. Homepage of groups app http://www.face...oups.php?ref=sb is nothing but useless. Nice to know fb is doing something to fix that app.

By: Jehanzaib

Jehanzaib — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:56:53 +0000

i got the msg too……..:D

By: JesusFreak

JesusFreak — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:05:26 +0000

I also got the message.

I guess it is basically because of the beta version @ http://www.beta.facebook.com

and also maybe because of the much talk about facebook personal page like this http://www.facebook.com/mark

Let’s wait and see what’s up

By: David Swain

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:02:29 +0000

Mike, sorry, you’re right, “hi” isn’t the launch of f8, Hawaii edition. This was just a bug. We were testing some functionality with sending Facebook messages and some test messages with a subject “hi” were inadvertently sent to various members of the Facebook Developer community. It’s been fixed.

By: igniguy

igniguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:39:38 +0000

Actually b may be right. I got verified but have seen almost unnoticeable increase in traffic since then. seems like a waste of money to me, unless we are given some kind of priority in their new payments system

By: josh liptzin

josh liptzin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:37:37 +0000

facebook is skynet

By: Timothy Dorr

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:36:18 +0000

It sounds like you’re just bitter because your whole marketing plan was based on you not having a marketing plan. Learn how to properly advertise your product and then bitch about it later.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:02:54 +0000

Dam… facebook sends out a hi – test and then they get a TC post… must be nice to be a billion dollar company…. lol

By: Anderson Mccutcheon

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:03 +0000

I got it a few hours ago.
For some reason had a feeling that somehow that msg will make it to TC.

This is not a test.

By: Kelly Ann Smith

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:53:56 +0000

When I saw the subject of this post, I thought that perhaps Facebook had become self-aware, and was now sending messages on its own. Oh well.

By: Khamel

Khamel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:50:54 +0000

theres no way its only 2000. i got a message and i only signed up to be a ‘developer’ when the new facebook design came out so i could keep the old one.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:49:49 +0000

agree! plus, Vernal is the guy who took the facebook.com/mike vanity url, which was supposed to be mine.

By: Matt Schlicht

Matt Schlicht — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:40:21 +0000

Cracks me up that the subject is “hi”.