(Reuters) – Facebook’s mother or father firm Meta Platforms Inc has paused new users from joining its social media monitoring tool CrowdTangle attributable to staffing constraints.
Meta, which disbanded the CrowdTangle group final 12 months, has been underneath strain to offer better transparency into its platforms.
CrowdTangle founder and CEO Brandon Silverman left Facebook final 12 months.
The tool is utilized by organizations and people to comply with, analyze and report on public content material out there on Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.
CrowdTangle was just lately moved to a new knowledge and transparency group, which is working by staffing transitions and concerns, a Meta spokesperson mentioned.
“We are pausing the flexibility for individuals to affix CrowdTangle whereas we work by some staffing constraints,” the spokesperson added.
New users can nonetheless get added to current firm accounts on the monitoring tool, the spokesperson mentioned.
(Reporting by Shivam Patel in Bengaluru and Elizabeth Culliford in New York; Editing by Stephen Coates)
