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Facebook will cut off API access to Hangtime if the product gets “too popular” (> 5 mil users)

Created by daffodilian on 2013-03-06; known on 2013-01-01; judged right by gwern on 2013-07-13.

  • daffodilian estimated 90% on 2013-03-06
  • Ben Doherty estimated 45% on 2013-03-07
  • Qiaochu said “How will you judge the prediction if the product never gets “too popular”? on 2013-03-13
  • gwern said “right, presumably; that’s the usual interpretation of conditionals – if x → y where ~x, evaluates to true. in this case, I see nothing in google about Hangtime being cut off by FBon 2013-07-13
  • gwern   judged this prediction right on 2013-07-13.