Today we updated the domain name used for sharing polls to make it even shorter. The domain poll.fbapp.io has been effectively replaced by poll.app.do throughout the app. This shorter URL will be easier to type in a browser's address bar.
We recently added a feature to help fight fraudulent voting for popular polls. You can now require participants to authorize the app before they submit the poll form. The app will store participants Facebook profile IDs and validate that each ID is unique. This effectively means that any given Facebook user will only be able to vote once.
When you install a Tab on your Facebook Page, it will be named "Poll" by default. It's sometimes useful to rename the tab to better reflect the purpose of your poll. You could for example rename it to "Contact Form" or "Mother's Day Contest". Fortunately, changing a tab's name can easily be done by following these steps:
Following the Facebook privacy stories of last week and the European Union GDPR regulation coming into force next month, we made a few changes to the Polls for Pages app to give participants more explicit control on the information they share with poll creators. Here are the changes you will notice starting this week when creating a poll:
Considerando as histórias atuais que surgiram envolvendo o uso de informações pessoais no Facebook por terceiros, recebemos muitos e-mails perguntando como usamos os dados que coletamos do Facebook. Neste post do blog queremos esclarecer como nossos aplicativos garantem que suas informações privadas estão protegidas.
Primeiramente, operamos em um modelo de negócios com base em assinatura. Em termos simples, isso significa que nosso lucro vem de usuários que pagam por uma assinatura de nossos serviços. Não exibimos anúncios e não vendemos nenhum dado coletado por meio de nossos aplicativos. Não é assim que operamos nossos negócios, já que isso sempre tem sido estabelecido de forma clara em nossa Política de Privacidade e Termos de Uso.
If you run a popular voting contest where the stakes are high, chances are some people might try to cheat to increase their odds of winning. At its core, the internet is an anonymous protocol so there's no easy way to verify voters identity.
Today we're happy to announce that you can connect your Polls for Pages account to Zapier. But wait! What is Zapier and how does it work, you ask? Here's the definition from Zapier's own website:
You might have noticed that a new location field was added to the participants page and in the Excel export. This data indicates participants current country, state and city. We use a database to match participants IP addresses with their actual...