Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban
Image: ABC News The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts in Australia over the course of the last few days, not long after Facebook banned Australian news sources on its platform. As Financial Times' Uma Patel suggests in a tweet thread, that's possibly because ABC capitalized on Facebook's news ban with an ad sending users to its app.
ABC News currently sits at No. 2 in the App Store's overall app rankings in Australia, according to the analytics firm App Annie, and No. 1 in the news app charts. When Patel noticed the change, the app was also briefly No. 1 overall, ahead of Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and the Facebook app itself.
ABC has used facebook's ban to prompt visitors to download...