The Sowetan repots 13,400 members of the Facebook page supporting Gordhan have been blocked from inviting their friends to a newly created group “Support for Pravin Gordhan and a better South Africa”. The reason the social networking group gave for their conduct was that the members were “misusing” it.
The group’s administrator‚ Satish Dhupelia‚ created the group on Saturday and members were blocked from Sunday. According to Facebook rules‚ the blocked members were inviting others “too fast”.
“We have limits in place to prevent abuse of our features and to protect people from spam and harassment. Limits are based on different factors‚ like speed and quantity‚ but we can’t provide additional details on the rate limits that are enforced‚” Facebook explains on its Help page.
Dhupelia said it was “very strange” that all members could not add their friends to the group.
There is a new page to support Gordhan, however. GO SUPPORT PRAVIN GORDHAN here: https://www.facebook.com/supportforpravingordhan/
