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Ryan • Edited

I remember first using Facebook's Graph API a couple years back. I only wanted to get engagement data (shares, likes, comments) for posts on a given page. I checked the documentation to see how often I could hit it within the rate limit.

The docs said we were allotted 2,000 calls per user per day.

One page like = one user.

Any medium-sized page or app which was so inclined could have (and probably did) stockpile loads of data.

The shocking thing about Facebook isn't they doled out everyone's data, it's that they did it for free.