Facebook App Approval… 5 Day Wait
Published by Rodney Rumford February 7th, 2008 in Facebook.I always get asked how long does it take for facebook applications to get approved. The answer is it varies greatly.
1 month ago we submitted another application for approval and were approved in under 24 hours. 2 weeks ago we submitted another app we built and it was approved in 3 days. We submitted an app 5 days ago and are still waiting approval.
What does this mean? Since the application approval process is done manually at facebook it could mean 2 things.
1. the rate of app submissions has increased the que. (likely)
2. applications are going through more rigorous approval process. (less likely)
I have maintained for a long time that the approval process for applications on facebook needed to have more controls and needed a deeper layer of criteria that app developers would need to meet. This is in hopes of raising the bar of who gets into the party.
I think actually having app developers pay a submission fee would eliminate a lot of the garbage apps that get thrown at the platform. Something in the area of 200 dollars would be great. This would stop a lot of the people that are just creating apps that are of low quality and the developers are not serious about delivering a quality product.
UPDATE: It took 6 days to get approved. Thats not so bad. 
I think a submission fee would just ensure that Slide pumps more spammy apps into the ecosystem. Having it free is the way to go. The Facebook economy isn’t stable to justify a monetary investment in addition to time spent.
I think the fee should be more like $10-20.
$200 and you eliminate the fun weekend projects.
$10-20 and you eliminate the super wasteful spam factories that are pushing to flip themselves in a week claiming a million users.
A submission fee is a very good idea! Phil, you’re wrong…. if you spend 2 weeks or more to develop an app, you can pay $200 to have it published. But of course, if you spend only 5 minutes to build it, then you don’t pay…
I agree. Many applications have 5 or less total users. My 14 yr old son says he doesn’t visit FB much anymore because of all initial fun has worn off the viral chump/quiz/are you? apps and now he’s annoyed the silliness… now if a 14 yr old says this, what does this portend for users older than 14? FB needs to at least force dev’s to put up some $250 to not fill the directory with non-used nonsense.
Or more to the point… why would they even approve the listing of these things in the first place?!