Tag Archives: vanity url
Top 5 reasons why t.co is a bad move by Twitter
Twitter announced, by e-mail to every user, that they are going to make their URL shortener (“wrapper”) mandatory on Twitter, and this will be applied to every URL posted, effectively eliminating the need (and, presumably, the functionality) of every other URL shortener in existence. Here are 5 reasons why this is a bad policy: It will put the nail in the coffin for competing shorteners, like bit.ly (which was just starting to look like it had a viable business model). If they go out of business, every Twitter user could be put in the position of having everything they ever tweeted with a bit.ly link become instantly dead. Twitter vaguely …
Top 5 Tips For New Facebook Pages
1. Make your page title as generic as possible. If you are setting up a page to promote your company brand, this may not be an option. But generic pages are far more likely to gain fans than brand pages. Think about it this way – if you have a website about “Travel to Asia”, do you think Facebook users will be more likely to become a fan of “Travel to Asia” or “TravelToAsia.com”? As much as it pains you, there are far more people who are fans of “Travel to Asia” than there are fans of your website. In my experience, people are far more likely to share their …
Dude, Where's My Username? Facebook Vanity URL Antics
Dude, where’s my username? He’s not Ashton Kutcher at facebook.com/aplusk. Get used to hearing the name Benjamin Standefer for awhile. I’d be willing to bet this holds – I don’t suspect Mr. Kutcher owns a trademark on “aplusk”. Here’s some other fun stuff I’ve come across: Trademark infringements – facebook.com/FriendFeed, facebook.com/iGoogle and facebook.com/appleinc. Attempted trademark infringement – facebook.com/mysapce – Jared, you have FAILed. Famed Internet Marketer Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker got facebook.com/internetmarketer. Ubergeek Robert Scoble got facebook.com/scobleizer for his popular page, and started a very interesting discussion on FriendFeed. Funny stuff – facebook.com/TwitterIsBetter and facebook.com/UserNamesAreStupid Oddities – facebook.com/roger and facebook.com/foodie go to the home page, not a user profile. The notorious …
