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  1. Conway

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    Rossy likes this.
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  3. Congay

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    How do these things work? Surely they have to hack into the FB site to some extent?
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    They read the information about the facebook page through an API called Opengraph. It sends back statistics about the page in question.
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    It's pretty fucking interesting, it's certainly confirmed all of my theories regarding 'big names' not being so big at all.

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