Multiple Recipient App Invites!!

Test User — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:43:00 GMT

As a developer, you’re currently limited to selecting only one recipient per app invite. For a user to send app invites to multiple friends has required developers to force the user to loop through the app invite process for each selected recipient. Not ideal for a number of reasons for either the developer or user, especially for large recipient lists.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve now released native support for multiple app invites. As a developer you can now pass in an array of up to 10 recipients. From the end user’s perspective we’ve made a number of UI enhancements as well. The user can now add or delete recipients directly from the invite modal using the standard multi-select component used in MySpace mail. This tool will auto recommend friends as users type. Best of all, it automatically filters out invalid recipients on the fly (eg. users who are not receiving app communications or already have the app installed).

Multiple Recipients

Once submitted, the user will receive a quick success confirmation that will automatically dismiss after a few seconds or list recipients whose invites could not be delivered in case of an error.

Since we’re providing native multiple app invite functionality and to preserve the app user experience we’ll be phasing out support for the existing looping invite process. We’ll shortly be updating our terms of service which will require the user to navigate away from the invite process page before allowing them to send another round of invites. We basically don’t want to encourage the same experience users have right now, but just on a larger scale. We’ll be providing a sixty (60) day grace period from the point the feature launches to fully phase out looping app invites for single recipients. In either case, you will not be allowed to loop multiple recipients.

Start implementing multiple recipient invites in your app now by checking out the docs.

MySpace Developer Team : app invites

Multiple Recipient App Invites!!