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Have You Claimed Your Facebook Vanity URL?
Posted in: Blog, Marketing, Tutorials by heath on July 6, 2009
In case you missed it Facebook has launched vanity URLs. URLs for user profiles were previously user id numbers – such as facebook.com/profile.php?id=7016478. Now you can claim a vanity URL such as facebook.com/heathcates much like MySpace has done.
The reason you need to pick your vanity URL – vanity URLs have proven to be a powerful tool on MySpace, Twitter and other services. It’s not just that users like them and it makes telling people your profile name easier. People have also long used MySpace URLs as their online identity. Twitter, more recently, has started to become the online identity provider of choice. Even Google is getting in on the vanity URL game.
If you have yet to select your vanity URL for your profile then go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and select it today.
If you are a business or organization with a facebook page you can still get a vanity URL but it is a bit more tricky. You must have at least 100 fans and even then some users report having trouble claiming a name for their page. For the most part though the biggest requirement is the number of fans your page must have. You can apply for a page vanity URL at the same place you did your profile, http://www.facebook.com/username/.
