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You’re probably a fan of at least a handful of brands and/or products on Facebook, and that’s because you’re truly fond of them. But have you ever wondered how much your virtual support is actually worth to these companies? Vitrue, an Atlanta-based social media management company, has calculated the exact value of a Facebook fan.
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Kip Drordy, the nerdy kid with zero friends in South Park’s Facebook episode, has gained over a 100,000 fans on Facebook in less than a week after the show aired on the 7th of April 2010.
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Any artist can have hundreds of fan pages on Facebook, but it takes a really successful one to have dozens and dozens of anti-fan pages. Take Justin Bieber. The 16-year-old Canadian pop singer with a certified platinum debut release may have millions of screaming fans, but his young, slightly androgynous looks and voice make him an easy target for opponents.
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If you feel like becoming a fan of a few random, funny Facebook pages today, here’s our selection du jour.
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By adding Google Analytics to Facebook pages, admins get access to additional statistical data about all visitors (and not just fans) such as traffic sources, keyword searches, and much more.
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What started with an audacious onion ring trying to get more fans than Justin Bieber, has evolved into a whole basket of eatables competing with celebrities for the largest number of Facebook fans.
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You know you’re doing the social media marketing thing wrong when even your biggest fans start throwing dirt at you. Let this be a lesson for the marketing team behind Blur, the recently reunited British rock band: do not ask Facebook users to go and spam Twitter.
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A photo of a duck, every day, delivered straight to your Facebook feed. Talking about a hole in the market. Or not.
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We’ve seen Facebook unintentionally append our lexis, and the spelling police is all over the social network in form of nitpicking friends, but we’ve never seen an attempt to change our vocabulary. The new year brings us such an endeavour with a Facebook page called “Saying “Twenty-Ten”, Instead of “Two-Thousand-Ten” Because It Sounds Cooler”.
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Of course, president Barack Obama does not want to move Christmas day at all, but this absurd Facebook group is trying to make you believe the non-existent plans.
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If there’s just one Facebook group you join today, it should be the one called People Against Bad Stuff and in Support of Good Things. Founded on December 14th by Zachary Shiner of the University of Santa Cruz (California), it’s a group that supports everything good and opposes to everything bad.
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Aaaahh, no better song to get you into a holly jolly Christmas mood than Killing in the name of by Rage Against The Machine. Wait. What?!
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Stop making duplicate groups, Facebook peeps! This includes groups that complain about duplicate groups, and also groups that complain about duplicate groups that are called “stop making duplicate groups”. See? It’s that simple.
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As you may have noticed, Facebook yesterday enabled an option for Page owners to target their stream updates based on their fans’ language and location. A new icon left of the Share button allows brand, product or business owners to limit who will see the stories after they’re published…