Posts Tagged ‘facebook pages’

4 Realz? Facebook Adds SMS To Fan Pages

Friday, March 27th, 2009

According to Dave Kerpen, Facebook has added SMS to their fan pages. The new feature lets anyone fan a page by texting “fan [page name]” to FBOOK (32665).

So far the rollout is limited and appears to only be for Fanning a page. I have no idea how Facebook determines who’s profile the text is from, other than checking against your listed phone number. I texted the service myself and got “access denied” in response.

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Page Data Knows How Unpopular Your Brand Is On Facebook

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Facebook’s new Page redesign has re-energized interest in the product. Pages are becoming more like profiles, letting owners communicate more directly with fans. However, there’s no easy way to know how well your page is doing, until now.

The popular Facebook blog InsideFacebook has released a new section called Page Data that tracks the number of fans for each Facebook page. Here’s today’s leaderboard:

Page Leaderboard

1. Barack Obama 5,909,490
2. Coca-Cola 3,304,167
3. Nutella 3,066,914
4. Pizza 3,024,657
5. DR. HOUSE 2,788,029
6. Cristiano Ronaldo 2,749,016
7. Pringles 2,731,596
8. kinder surprise 2,593,213
9. Facebook 2,513,586
10. Windows Live Messenger 2,479,754
11. Sid 2,420,297
12. Boo 2,358,570
13. YouTube 2,310,950
14. Rihanna 2,245,725
15. Twilight 2,127,224

16. Michael Phelps 2,044,847
17. dormir 2,043,895
18. Donkey 2,022,591
19. Adam Sandler 2,008,928
20. Los simpson 1,988,995
21. ICE CREAM! 1,934,157
22. Stewart Griffin 1,929,087
23. Converse ALL STAR 1,887,063
24. Coldplay 1,869,950
25. F.R.I.E.N.D.S (Tv Series) 1,867,089
26. FERRERO ROCHER 1,849,397
27. Twilight 1,848,161
28. BobMarley 1,819,188
29. Mc Donalds 1,789,237
30. Dormir 5 minutos Mas 1,768,973