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Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine, Twitter's New Video App

AllThingsDigital - Videos  |  January 24, 2013

Well, that was fast. But we knew it was coming.

That was fast!

Within hours of Twitter launching its Vine video-sharing application on Thursday, Facebook has cut off access to Vine’s “find people” feature, which used to let Vine users find their Facebook friends using the Vine application.

What does that mean? It’s basically an annoyance, a hindrance on an easy way to connect with all your existing friends using the service. It would have been a good way to jump into a new product, rather than manually trying to find all of your friends using the app. ...