LinkedIn shuts down would-be hook-up service

February 09, 2013

LinkedIn has shut off its API access to “Bang With Professionals,” a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to allow LinkedIn users to anonymously search for people in their LinkedIn network who would be interested in meeting up for casual sex. “We all had a good laugh,” the founders of Bang With Professionals said Friday on the website, less than a month after its launch. “We all knew it was a matter of time before our API key was revoked.” Here’s what was left of the Bang With Professionals website on Friday afternoon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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