Facebook might be shutting down access to hashtags in its API

Facebook is reportedly closing off access to its hashtags API later this month. Tint, an audience management service, noted in an email to its users that the social network has scheduled deprecation of the API endpoint that allows it to access hashtag data on April 30. Tint mentioned that the API in question began returning errors yesterday, and said Facebook confirmed it is no longer supporting the API used for hashtags. This means that social media management services that plug into Facebook won’t be able to access hashtag-related data and stats. For its part, Tint says it’s working with Facebook…



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