Facebook Terminates Their Polling Service

Posted under Journal by Mike

TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook Polls is no longer available. Facebook Polls enabled anyone to create a paid poll targeting a pre-defined group of users.

The link that used to redirect to the service now forwards to the Facebook homepage and there is no longer any reference of Facebook Polls anywhere in Facebook.

Facebook put Facebook Polls on hold last October when there were internal questions about the priority for the product. They advise users to switch to one of the third-party polling applications that are available.

Facebook’s statement:

“The ability to create Facebook Polls is no longer available on the public site, though users may still receive Facebook Polls created internally by Facebook. Facebook is exploring options for making a polling product publicly available again in the future but has no definite plans to discuss at this point.”

This seems like an odd move, especially as LinkedIn is making a large push towards making their users available for market researchers and other pollsters via LinkedIn Polls.