双语新闻：Facebook与第三方开发者关系恶化
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, DevelopersLast month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.
上个月在巴黎，程序开发人员莫尔科斯(Antoine Morcos)收到一封始料不及的邮件：Facebook Inc.FB+0.23%说，该公司将切断与他的照片分享应用Vintage Camera的联系。
Mr. Morcos, 31 years old, instantly lost nearly half a million registered users who only accessed Vintage Camera through the social-networking site. Facebook (FB), without being specific, said too many users had complained about Vintage Camera, said Mr. Morcos. He appealed, arguing his app fielded less than three complaints for every 1,000 photos shared, but Facebook didn't budge.
31岁的莫尔科斯马上失去了将近50万只通过这家社交网站访问Vintage Camera的注册用户。莫尔科斯说，Facebook声称太多用户投诉Vintage Camera，但没有具体说明。他提出申诉，说自己的应用程序在每1,000张分享的照片中只有不到三次投诉，但Facebook仍坚持原来的意见。
'I was really shocked,' Mr. Morcos said. 'Users were sharing as much as 6,000 photos per day on Facebook; now access is blocked.'
莫尔科斯说：我十分震惊。用户每天在Facebook上分享的照片最多达到6,000张;如今访问却被阻止了。
Vintage Camera, which competes with Facebook's Instagram app, is one of a growing number of third-party apps that have been blocked by the social network recently.
Facebook近来屏蔽了越来越多的第三方软件，与Facebook旗下Instagram图片分享应用竞争的Vintage Camera就是其中之一。
Facebook has long had a complex relationship with developers as it balances a complicated set of interests. The company says it is stepping up efforts to police the network by curbing spam and restricting apps that aren't adding sufficient value to the network.
长期以来，在Facebook平衡错综复杂的利益的过程中，它与开发者的关系也十分复杂。该公司说，正在加强网络监管举措，控制垃圾信息，并限制没有为其网络增加足够价值的应用。
Developers say the crackdown is an attempt to stifle applications that compete with Facebook-owned services or part of an effort to get developers to pay for ads on Facebook.
开发者们说，这一打击活动旨在扼杀与Facebook自有服务相竞争的应用程序，或是试图让开发者为Facebook上的广告付费的行动之一。
Apart from Vintage Camera, the social network also recently blocked messaging app Voxer, Yandex NV's Wonder social-discovery app, and Twitter Inc.'s Vine video app.
除了Vintage Camera，这家社交网络最近还屏蔽了信息推送应用Voxer、Yandex NV旗下的Wonder社交探索应用，还有推特(Twitter Inc.)的Vine视频应用。
On Friday, Facebook blocked MessageMe Inc., a messaging service that had just launched days earlier, from accessing users' friends list. Arjun Sethi, a MessageMe co-founder, said Facebook cited a section of its policy that addressed restricting apps that copied a core Facebook product or service.
上周五，Facebook阻止了MessageMe Inc.访问用户的朋友列表，这一信息服务几天前才刚刚发布。MessageMe的联合创始人塞西(Arjun Sethi)说，Facebook援引了一段政策，说要限制模仿Facebook核心产品或服务的应用。
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