Tag: Facebook

It looks like Facebook has finally lowered or removed the minimum number of fans required to register a vanity URL for a page.

When the vanity URL feature was first announced, a page needed 1000 fans. Then they reduced it to 25 fans, but only for a short time. Without warning, the limit was increased to 100 fans, so my pages weren’t eligible.

Today I noticed a vanity URL announcement at the top of a page, so I went back to www.Facebook.com/username to try again.

This time I was successful, and now my Facebook pages have vanity URLs:

http://www.facebook.com/Contextures

and

http://www.facebook.com/PivotTables

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Instead of using my personal Facebook page for business news, I’ve created two pages for Excel related updates.

One is for Contextures, and it has general Excel news and automatic updates from my Contextures blog.

The other page is for Pivot Table news, and has automatic updates from my Excel Pivot Tables blog.

How to Create Your Own Pages

It’s reasonably easy to set up your own Facebook page, but a few of the links and buttons are pretty well hidden. This blog post gives you step by step details for creating a Facebook page and adding the basic components. It will get you off to a good start, and you can fine tune it later.

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