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Facebook has pulled Instagram traffic from public view, according to a story out yesterday from TechCrunch.
Instagram's page on AppData, which reports user numbers based on data obtained through Facebook's API, now states that "Facebook no longer reports new data for this application."
As an example cited by TechCrunch, Instagram showed 45.8 million monthly active users on January 7 as measured by Facebook logins. That number was zero as of yesterday.
Facebook told TechCrunch that the move was designed to bring Instagram in accord with its other apps, which don't appear separately in AppData.
"We don't provide app usage metrics for apps owned or created by Facebook through our API," a spokesperson told TechCrunch. "We've updated our API to reflect this for Instagram, which would remove it from AppData's rankings."
The move follows a mess of controversy that hit Facebook and Instagram last month.
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