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New App fb140 Lets You Find Facebook Friends on Twitter

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New App fb140 Lets You Find Facebook Friends on Twitter

If you’re searching for your Facebook friends on Twitter, check out fb140 from Twitter app developer Twables to make the job a little easier. The service uses Facebook Connect to find and add your existing Facebook friends to your Twitter following list, so you won’t have to hunt through each person’s information to find their Twitter handle. This tool is especially beneficial for those with lots of Facebook friends. How does fb140 know how to find Facebook friends on Twitter? It looks at the website... (more)

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50 Million Facebook Users, 20,000 Pages Now Have Vanity URLs

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50 Million Facebook Users, 20,000 Pages Now Have Vanity URLs

It’s been just over a month since Facebook launched its username registration process, allowing any user or Facebook Page to get its own unique “vanity” URL on Facebook. Let’s take a look at the latest stats: Over 50 million Facebook usernames have been assigned overall. That’s over 20% of Facebook’s 250 million users - an impressive number since the feature was launched just over one month ago. Since the first weekend of the username landrush in which 6 million usernames were registered, Facebook u... (more)

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Report: 74% of Facebook Ad Revenues Comes from Local Advertisers

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Report: 74% of Facebook Ad Revenues Comes from Local Advertisers

With Facebook planning to do over $500 million in total revenues this year, one advertising research firm says the bulk of the company’s advertising revenues are coming from local advertisers. Borrell Associates says that of the $310 million it estimates in total advertising revenue for Facebook in 2009, nearly $230 million of that, or 74%, will come from local businesses targeting Facebook users based on their location. By comparison, Borrell estimates that only 27% of MySpace’s 2009 revenues will come... (more)

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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Page Updating

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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Page Updating

Good news for business, brands, and artists who want to more easily update their Facebook Pages on the go: Facebook for iPhone 3.0, which should be released soon, will include Page updating, according to lead developer Joe Hewitt. Currently, Facebook for iPhone doesn’t support Pages at all. But with version 3.0, Page administrators should be able to post status updates and photos to their Facebook Page directly from their iPhone. In addition, Hewitt recently detailed the features that will be inclu... (more)

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Stream Publishing API Now Open to All Developers

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Stream Publishing API Now Open to All Developers

Good news for those developers who’ve been waiting to use the announced stream publishing API: the method no longer requires acceptance to Facebook’s white list for use with the general Facebook public. The stream.publish API call allows an application to publish updates directly into a given user’s stream automatically once given permission. Previously, while the API call was in beta, developers were required to apply to be accepted onto the white list if they wanted to use the call beyond developers... (more)

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MySpace’s Inflection Point

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As Facebook becomes the most popular social network worldwide, MySpace, once deemed as its main competitor, must now undergo a rigorous effort to reinvent itself and hit a more focused audience. That seemed to be the thought of News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch, who, during a meeting of technology and media executives this week in Sun Valley, Idaho, said he thinks MySpace needs to be refocused “as an entertainment portal.” It’s hard to imagine the media mogul is satisfied with his purchase of the... (more)

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FarmVille is the Fastest Growing App on Facebook with 3 Million New Users This Week

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FarmVille is the Fastest Growing App on Facebook with 3 Million New Users This Week July 15th, 2009 As summer advances, the application leaderboards are showing healthy signs of growth. According to AppData, the top gainers this week in the one million to 10 million monthly active users (MAU) category are a combination of gaming, quiz, music, and events-related apps that are reporting impressive numbers. Let’s take a closer look. (more)

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Facebook Crosses 250 Million User Mark, Adds 100 Million New Users in 6 Months

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Facebook Crosses 250 Million User Mark, Adds 100 Million New Users in 6 Months

Another 100 days, another 50 million users for Facebook. Just three months after crossing the 200 million user mark, and six months after crossing the 150 million user mark, Facebook announced today that a quarter-billion people are now actively using the site each month. If Facebook were a country, it would now easily be the fourth most populous in the world. Earlier this month, we noticed an uptick in Facebook’s recent growth. While Facebook has been growing at around 300,000 to 400,000 active users... (more)

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Facebook Launches 3 Powerful New Targeting Features for Facebook Ads

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Facebook Launches 3 Powerful New Targeting Features for Facebook Ads

The recent spate of enhancements to Facebook Ads is continuing today with several new ways to target Facebook ad campaigns. Last week, Facebook turned on time scheduling, and this weekend, ad editing. Today, it’s enabling three new features: connection targeting, multiple country targeting, and birthday targeting. Connection Targeting Connection targeting is perhaps the most robust of the new targeting features. With connection targeting, advertisers can now target their ad to only reach users who ar... (more)

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Nielsen: Average US User Now Spends Over 4.5 Hours Per Month on Facebook

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Nielsen: Average US User Now Spends Over 4.5 Hours Per Month on Facebook

Research film Nielsen has just released new metrics on the web’s largest and stickiest websites. The results? You guessed it: users are spending more time on Facebook than other popular sites from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL. In June, time spent per person increased by over 25% to 4 hours and 39 minutes per person per month (that’s over 9 minutes per user per day, on average), according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, time spent increased on Google sites to 2 hours and 31 minutes per person per month,... (more)

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Splenda uses Facebook to Dole Out 16,000 Samples of New Splenda Mist

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Splenda uses Facebook to Dole Out 16,000 Samples of New Splenda Mist

In a break from traditional product sampling, sweetener brand Splenda is sending Facebook fans samples of its new Splenda Mist product to test reactions from consumers. Creating a Facebook following specifically to form a sample group is a new approach that allowed Splenda to gather personal information as well as all-important demographic data. So far, the experiment has been successful, with Splenda passing out more than 16,000 samples of the new prototype product in just 2 weeks. Where most brands ... (more)

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10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know

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10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know

Facebook Pages are increasingly becoming a “second home page” for businesses online. And while more and more Page owners are learning how to become expert Facebook marketers, Facebook has recently created many new opportunities for Pages to get more traffic through the tried and true methods of - you guessed it - search engine optimization (SEO). While Facebook’s “viral channels” - the News Feed, invitations, and messages - play a central role in the spread of content through Facebook, employing impor... (more)

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Facebook Makes it Easier to Create and Share Events

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Facebook Makes it Easier to Create and Share Events

If you’re the type of event planner who’s into spontaneous and open events, your life just got a little bit more interesting. Facebook has just added new features to the “publisher” that let you create and share events in one step. The idea behind the new feature is that, until now, Facebook users who wanted to quickly organize open events either did so via status updates or creating Facebook Events, which you could then share; but now, they can combine both options in one step by creating an event direc... (more)

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The King of Pop Reigns on Facebook with the Most Popular Facebook Page

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The King of Pop Reigns on Facebook with the Most Popular Facebook Page

True to his name, the King of Pop’s Facebook Page has now grown to be the most popular page on Facebook - outpacing Barack Obama’s page by about 100,000 fans. A week ago, we reported that Michael Jackson’s page was the fastest growing page on the site with nearly 2.5 million fans. Now, the page has gained 4 million more fans and reached a total of 6.5 million fans - the largest fan base on Facebook to date. Here’s a look at an PageData chart tracking the dramatic increase in number of fans in the past w... (more)

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Andreessen: Facebook Revenues To Pass $500 Million in 2009, Wouldn’t Sell Shares Yet

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Andreessen: Facebook Revenues To Pass $500 Million in 2009, Wouldn’t Sell Shares Yet

Entrepreneur Mark Andreessen, who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, said in an interview today with Reuters that Facebook will see $500 million in revenues in 2009. He also said he expects Facebook will be doing “billions in revenues” in 5 years, and employees who sell their shares now are “making a mistake.” Speaking on the same day that his new VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz, was announced, Andreessen said that Facebook could be making much more money than it is today if it wanted to. “If they pus... (more)

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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon - Preview and Details

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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon - Preview and Details

Facebook’s iPhone application is one of the most popular iPhone apps overall - nearly 25% of all iPhone owners use it according to Joe Hewitt, lead engineer for Facebook’s iPhone application. Today, Hewitt shared some more details on the upcoming version 3.0 of the Facebook iPhone app. What will be coming in the new version? 1. The “new” News Feed Like Events (including the ability to RSVP) Notes Pages Create new photo albums Upload photos to any album Zoom into photo... (more)

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New App fb140 Lets You Find Facebook Friends on Twitter

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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Page Updating

Stream Publishing API Now Open to All Developers

MySpace’s Inflection Point

FarmVille is the Fastest Growing App on Facebook with 3 Million New Users This Week

Facebook Crosses 250 Million User Mark, Adds 100 Million New Users in 6 Months

Facebook Launches 3 Powerful New Targeting Features for Facebook Ads

Nielsen: Average US User Now Spends Over 4.5 Hours Per Month on Facebook

Splenda uses Facebook to Dole Out 16,000 Samples of New Splenda Mist

10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know

Facebook Makes it Easier to Create and Share Events

The King of Pop Reigns on Facebook with the Most Popular Facebook Page

Andreessen: Facebook Revenues To Pass $500 Million in 2009, Wouldn’t Sell Shares Yet

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