Posts Tagged ‘URL’

Facebook Vanity URLs Take Two

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Internet, Marketing, technology

Facebook wordmark The first round of Facebook vanity URLs proved to be a huge success. Within minutes of the feature being made available, Mashable reported that over 200,000 usernames had been registered. If you didn’t pick up a URL the first night, head over to Facebook.com/username to register one now.

But what if you were trying to get a URL for one of your Facebook Pages and found that you couldn’t? In the first round, Facebook restricted the vanity URL feature to Pages with 1000 fans or more. If your group had 999 fans or less, you were out of luck… until now. This Sunday at midnight ET, Facebook will be opening the vanity URL feature to ALL pages, regardless of the number of fans.

The vanity URL feature is still for only usernames and Pages. Facebook Groups don’t yet have the option of getting one.

Facebook Vanity URLs

// June 12th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Internet

If you’re up right now, don’t forget to take advantage of the opening of Facebook Vanity URLs which changes the address of your profile from something like this:

facebook.com/9581189

to this:

facebook.com/your.name

Not sure what to pick? Standard domain name rules apply. Pick something easy to remember, easy to spell and as short as possible. I tried for /guin but it turns out the username has to be at least five characters, so I managed to snag facebook.com/guinevere.

If you want your own vanity URL at Facebook, click here to get one now.