Facebook needed third-party apps to grow. Now it’s left with a privacy crisis


  • TECH
  • Friday, 23 Mar 2018

The Facebook Inc. application is seen in the App Store on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Facebook is struggling to respond to growing demands from Washington to explain how the personal data of millions of its users could be exploited by a consulting firm that helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Facebook had only 20 million users when it opened up its budding platform to outside app developers in 2007, giving them much-needed access to the social network's growing web of friends and family. 

The developers built online games, quizzes and dating apps that gave people even more reasons to join Facebook. 

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