Facebook accidentally let some users see how popular their posts are

JMH

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If you were one of the few, er, lucky Facebook users to get a peek behind the curtain to see how popular your posts are, you're probably already aware that you aren't exactly ... how shall we put it?
Upworthy.
Oh well!
On Wednesday, some users discovered a bug that affected Facebook's mobile site - not its desktop or official mobile apps.
Facebook confirmed to The Verge that by Thursday afternoon, it had squashed the short-lived bug, which let users of its mobile website see the view count for their own and others' posts.
The bug resulted in the number of Views being displayed next to Likes and Comments below posts.

Here's how it looked, according to Twitter users:
Anyone else see a "view" count on their Facebook posts now? pic.twitter.com/USrmCblRHq
— Stephen Robles (@stephenrobles) October 14, 2015

At least one user found it "creepy", given that the view count showed up on a personal photo that was set to be seen by friends only:
@facebook , this is creepy. I have view count showing up on a personal photo set to friends only. Why is this? pic.twitter.com/Ja3Q18YRiq
— Anna A-P (@annazabeth) October 14, 2015
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...t-some-users-see-how-popular-their-posts-are/
 

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