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Facebook Blocks Defriended iPhone App

Earlier this week, developers at i-Doodz released Defriended, an iPhone application that made it extra easy to keep tabs on the so-called “friends” who remove you from their Facebook pages.

The 99-cent app scanned your Facebook friend list each time you ran the program and compared it with the last list. If it noticed a missing name, it alerted you to the wayward friend.

(Coincidentally, “unfriend” was the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year.)

But only days after Defriended’s debut, Facebook blocked the application, and Apple pulled it from the App store.

The app is no longer available in the App store, and Facebook confirmed to social media blog Mashable Wednesday that that the app was blocked for violating the developer agreement.

“While we cannot remove an application running on another website or platform, we will ensure that applications that access Facebook user data adhere to Facebook Platform policies,” the company said.

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