A Facebook app called The Whooper Sacrifice was built by Burger King to promote the fast-food chain's burgers on the social networking website. Burger King's pitch -- drop ten (10) of your Facebook friends and get a free Whooper. Â You can only get one free Whooper so even if you dropped 50 friends, you still get one burger. What prompted the sudden closure was that Facebook didn't like the app sending notices to users they've been dropped in exchange of a burger. Facebook just wanted to tweak that part of the app but Burger King thought it wouldn't be fun anymore so they conceded to Facebook closing it down. My last entry about CDR-King sparked a heated debate among readers. CDR-King started out selling blank CDs -- where other stores were selling branded CDs between Php25 to Php100 a piece, CDR-King was able to sell un-branded ones to just Php5 to Php8 a pop. Due to its success in that front, CDR-King expanded its inventory to many other products -- flash storage, networking devices, memory modules, electrical accessories, digital cameras, TVs, tablets, laptops and many more. Read more in our articles including "Facebook blocks Burger King App" and "Does CDR-King have a reputation problem?".
A Facebook app called The Whooper Sacrifice was built by Burger King to promote the fast-food chain's burgers on the social networking website. Burger King's pitch -- drop ten (10) of your Facebook friends and get a free Whooper.
 You can only get one free Whooper so even if you dropped 50 friends, you still get one burger. What prompted the sudden closure was that Facebook didn't like the app sending notices to users they've been dropped in exchange of a burger. Facebook just wanted to tweak that part of the app but Burger King thought it wouldn't be fun anymore so they conceded to Facebook closing it down.
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