A Long Island-based startup has very publicly picked a fight with Facebook, penning a bitter goodbye note on the site that charges 80% of the clicks it paid for in ads were from bots.
Though the company — Limited Run — had only 400 or so fans when the note went up on Monday, the spat became national news. Tom Mango, co-founder of the company, which hosts stores for labels, designers and artists, said the entry got picked up by Hacker News, which led to press reports elsewhere. The notoriety by the incident may be the small business equivalent to General Motors’s decision to pull its ads from Facebook in May. The allegation is especially damaging since it comes after a BBC probe als…
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