According to Mike Allen, Robert Gibbs is definitely not going to work at Facebook.

“It blew up.” The deal – a potential goldmine when Facebook goes public — was originally described to us by Obamans as a chance for Gibbs to be “Mark Zuckerberg’s guy.” But when the Facebook side leaked precise details to NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin about the layers that would separate Gibbs from the top…

Allen points out in Playbook, for someone who used to report directly to the president of the United States, that wasn’t going to work for Gibbs. Too bad, could have been a solid get for Facebook.