The Facebook Rush Hour
June 15, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Social Media
Facebook launched their vanity URL’s at the end of last week and it is reported that
200,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 3 minutes
500,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 15 minutes
1,000,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first hour!
3,000,000 names were ‘grabbed’ in the first 12 hours
Wow, the first thing that springs to mind is congratulations to Facebook in coping with that amount of traffic!
The second is as great as the vanity url’s are, I am not sure how useful it will be to me in my everyday life. I have rarely wanted to give verbally the address, only using it as a link from another website. But maybe that is because my name is relatively unusual and I am easy to find on Facebook! However it will help in terms of Google search which may well be as big a benefit to Facebook as to me.
The vanity URL shows how Facebook is attempting to make Facebook your home page, your way into the web. I must say that at the moment that is not working for me and I am more interested in seeing how Google Wave maybe provides the solution that I am looking for…what do you think?
