I’ve been regularly checking the Facebook website for additional information on when users can claim a vanity URL for their Fan Page. Their website still says “June 28, 2009″ but does NOT indicate a time of day. When Facebook started allowing users to create a vanity URL for their personal profile, it started at 12:01 a.m. EDT (or 9:01 p.m. PST). I’m thinking this might be what’s going to happen again. In any event, I’m going to be on my computer checking it out Saturday night PST.
I did just notice a change to what Facebook had posted on their site. It now says, “All Pages created after May 31, 2009 or that had less than 1,000 fans on that day will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009 if they have more than 25 fans“. Notice the part I highlighted in red! I don’t believe that part of the sentence was on the Facebook website yesterday!
So, unfortunately if your Fan Page is relatively new and has fewer than 25 Fans…it looks like you will still have to wait to obtain a Facebook vanity URL. There are other alternatives however for creating a shorter URL. I will post additional information on this next week.
Stay tuned for more info!
Kimberly Yow
Marketing That’s Easy
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That’s awfully upsetting that Facebook would limit it in this way! I hope they change their mind at the last minute, or at least give us additional information soon!
Today June 28, the time is 12:19pm now in Malaysia, which I believe it’s 00:19 EDT. But I still can’t get the username for my page even though I have more than 25 fans.
Looks like it’s not happening tonight! The only thing on FB’s site that I found with a time says that “new users” can claim a username on June 28th at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Does that mean that’s also when we can claim Fan Page URL’s? We can only wait and see…ugh!
Great post!
Where did you find info on vanity urls for fan pages? Any new info?
Here is the info from the Facebook website. It’s on help page: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=900.
Originally the minimum was 1000. Facebook said the minimum would be “lifted” on June 28th. (I was assuming that lifted meant zero.) On the 27th, the above statement suddenly said “more than 25 fans” and the next day it had been changed to “more than 100 fans”. I do check this page/statement frequently in case they lower the minimum and I will definitely post a blog about it if they do
You can also go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ periodically and try to claim a vanity URL for your fan page. If your page doesn’t meet the minimum fan requirement, you will get a message saying your page isn’t eligible at this time.
My blog posts are imported into my Facebook Fan Page at http://www.socialnetworkingforbusiness.info so if you become a fan of my page that’s another way you can stay updated.
Thanks for your question Marie!
Kimberly
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