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        <title><![CDATA[Spotify is crashing with other iPhone apps, Facebook glitch suspected]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spotify, Pinterest and Tinder crashed Friday morning — and Facebook is the suspected culprit.</p><p>Users are reporting that dozens of iPhone and iPad apps went down, according to <strong>DownDetector.com,</strong> and initial investigations point to Facebook&#8217;s software development kit (SDK) as the probable cause. Many of the broken apps rely on SDK to manage user logins, <strong>The Verge</strong> reports.</p><p>&#8220;Earlier today, a code change triggered crashes for some iOS apps using the Facebook SDK,&#8221; a Facebook company spokesperson told The Post.&nbsp; &#8220;We identified the issue quickly and resolved it. We apologize for any inconvenience.&#8221;</p><p>Facebook acknowledged the glitch immediately: &#8220;We are aware and investigating an increase in errors on the iOS SDK which is causing some apps to crash,&#8221; the social media giant wrote at 7 a.m. Friday <strong>in a post</strong> to its developer platform.</p><p>All iOS users, and not just those who use Facebook to log into certain apps, were impacted. Android users did not report being affected by the issue.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Facebook&#8217;s software has temporarily disabled large swaths of popular apps: On May 6, virtually the same problem also rendered a good deal of apps temporarily useless for much of the day.</p><p>The underlying issue in both instances is that Facebook has become entrenched in a great deal of apps by offering up its log-in services (the ability to log in using your Facebook profile instead of setting up an individual user account) in exchange for advertising and analytics, meaning its issues have a wider impact. Both users and developers are growing increasingly irritated with the social media platform and its faulty software as a result, The Verge reports.</p><p>&#8220;Facebook really pushes developers into installing their SDK, likely because they want the very rich data they can collect on those app’s users,&#8221; app developer Guilherme Rambo <strong>told the tech news site</strong> during the May crash. &#8220;The SDK is offered as a convenience for both developers and marketing teams, since it can also be used to track the conversions of ads run through Facebook.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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