After the initial announcement of Facebook’s Vanity URL feature, Tweets, innumerable blog posts with speculations, tricks and tips, updates, guides, etc. got published as if “Facebook is giving away Domains for FREE”. This post by Anil Dash rightly reflects the hype that was created for this Facebook feature launch.
Why The BUZZ? Branding. Unique Identity. Easily searchable in search engines.
Anyways, I successfully created my vanity URL with no probs which is http://www.facebook.com/ramnath.banerjee You may also view my profile at http://www.facebook.com/ram.nath.baner.jee since FB have the same problem with identifying periods as in Gmail. Also wonder how this URL got created.
When the gates were opened…
Reports say that 200,000 usernames have been registered in 3 minutes, and in the next 13 minutes 500,000 usernames were already taken. Considering the fact that everything went smoothly, its easliy understandable the amount of hard work the FB team has done. Good job!
Facebook team celebrates! This video is from the Facebook War Room itself.
Grab your own Facebook vanity URL now! (Do you really care??)
