EXCLUSIVE: The Code Change That Was Needed To Increase Facebook Friends Limit

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Today Michael Arrington announced that Facebook lifted their 5000 friends limit. As a tech blogger, I bring you the “behind the scenes” view: the code change that was needed to be done to increase this limit:

fb_friends_limit

For the non techies:

  • line 3: commented out – the previous friends limit defined
  • line 4 – the new friends limit

Shocking. :-)

Arik

  • http://www.nivcalderon.com Niv Calderon

    now i can rest, i don’t have to worry :)

  • http://www.arikfr.com/ Arik

    You, Pulver and Scoble :-)

  • http://chep2m.wordpress.com Ellen Leanse

    wow. if they’d only told me. I coulda done that for them, and long ago.

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  • http://www.ekampf.com Eran Kampf

    Only 50,000?! :)

  • http://www.arikfr.com/ Arik

    Eran – that way people will have what to blog about when Scoble & Pulver reach 49900… :-)

  • http://wwww.cgandc.net CGC

    This just shows the simplicity of expansion and ways to get more people to talk about it.

    I wonder why they would even want to put a limit in the first place? Unless they are thinking of connection by 6th degree, even than this limit would not allow all the possible connections. I think they never thought MAX limit would be ever reached.

  • http://www.arikfr.com/ Arik

    CGC – I think that your last assumption (they never thought this limit will be reached) is the right one.