* If a user has deleted their Facebook account, the username will appear solely as 'Facebook User', so now you need to figure out who you were actually talking to. The dump is supposed to include attachments (images are included), but is missing audio messages / voice snippets, presumably among others. * Some messages are straight up missing, despite being in the UI. * The character encoding is messed up, and requires decoding as Latin1, then re-encoding as UTF-8 ![]() The Messenger dump revealed a few things that surprised me: I downloaded the Facebook data dump, figuring that was the easiest way to get access to my Messenger data. I had some spare time on my hands in December 2019, and wanted to write a tool to browse chat logs from across a variety of services (Facebook Chat, Hangouts, SMS), such that you'd be able to click a name and see a chronological discussion, regardless of what service it was on. This worked decently well for a couple years, and continues to work to this day. The numbers the API reports are wrong, and there's no indication that it's being purposely redacted.Īs a result, I wrote a tool that crawls a profile given a set of authenticated cookies, and essentially clicks the download link automatically on every photo. I got myself a Facebook Graph API key and created a sample app with full account permissions, only to discover that Facebook won't let you export photos you're tagged in (that you didn't take). I manually the images from them, but wanted a way to automatically scrape any images I was tagged in, so I wouldn't need to do this manually. Story above, technical details below:Ī couple years ago, I noticed that the number of photos I was tagged in kept going up and down, as a couple of people I knew would disable their accounts occasionally, and re-enable them a couple weeks later. The idea that you do not need a special occasion to break off a piece of the candy and that it is a perfect break time snack will forever remain a staple of the Kit Kat brand.This is a topic that I'm intimately familiar with, thanks to a bizarre set of circumstances (and a ton of reverse engineering). The new slogan is acknowledging that a break is less formalized but, even it is for five minutes, you can maximize your enjoyment with a KitKat,” says a spokesman for Nestlé.Īlthough the brand no longer uses the famous slogan, Kit Kat has been able to create and advantage with a jingle that consumers can sing off the top of their head and included it in many memorable commercials. “Our findings indicated that the workplace break is now less structured and formal. ![]() After some market research, Nestle discovered that while most people knew the slogan and the jingle, it was starting to have little effect in convincing them to buy the candy. In 2004, the makers of Kit Kat decided to take a break from the company’s 47-year old slogan. Levine, was introduced in America in 1986. The classic “Gimme a Break” Kit Kat jingle, written by Ken Shuldman and Michale A. One year later, it was used on the first television spot for the candy and the commercials became extremely popular in the 1980’s when boardrooms and newsrooms were shown breaking off pieces of a Kit Kat bar. Have a Kit Kat” with the idea of associating the Kit Kat bar with the enjoyment of a short break from the working day. Walter Thompson ad agency created the slogan “Have a break. During World War II, the candy was portrayed as a valuable wartime food and was advertised as “What active people need”. Within two years of its launch, Kit Kat had become Rowntree’s (a Nestle company) most popular product. The chocolate wafer was initially introduced in London in September 1935 as “Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp” and was renamed two years later as Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp. When you are halfway through a long, exhausting workday, why not take a break and reach for the perfect break time candy…a Kit Kat bar. ![]() Flashback Friday: "Gimme a Break" admin | April 5, 2013
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