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When Facebook released the Facebook developer platform two years ago, one of the greatest incentives to developing was the viral distribution of applications through application invites. Soon enough, invitations were limited as users began complaining about the massive influx of new application invites and developers began abusing the system.
Now, most applications have anywhere from 2 - 40 daily invites per user. Contrast that with public profiles which now have limitless invites. For example, I just invited over 200 friends to join my page whereas previously I was limited to promoting via Facebook advertisements. This is a huge upgrade for the public profiles and I would expect to see a relatively large jump in fans as page admins begin to take advantage of this feature.
This feature just went live tonight and it’s one of the numerous upgrades that users have been asking for via our discussion forum where we started a thread earlier today about public profile feature requests. As I’ve been mentioning via the AllFacebook.com public profile, Facebook is expected to roll out a number of upgrades over the coming weeks.
The most anticipated upgrade is an updated of the public profiles API which should include access to public profile status updates. I’m extremely excited about tonight’s upgrade though as it makes it much easier to share your public profiles with friends. Previously I could only update my status but if users weren’t around to see my status update when it had been posted, they frequently missed it.
Now they will have a permanent update that they need to either accept or delete which is great for those public profile admins looking to expand their reach. Check out a screenshot of the invite form below and an image of what the page (”public profile”) suggestion looks like. Do you think this will have a big impact on the reach of public profiles? Are there any other features that you are anticipating?
Thanks to Dominic Grant for tipping us off about this in our discussion forum! Also, make sure that you become a fan of AllFacebook.
Page Suggestion Request Screenshot
Page Suggestion Form Screenshot
Nice change
This will be huge for brands to grow awareness through their bran d advocates. Hopefully it doesn’t become annoying and people begin complaining. I will test it out on my company’s fb page in our next big push.
This feature been live for almost 3 days now.
No distribution spam please
Pages finally come up to par with Groups, which already had the possibility to “invite all your friends”. I’m glad I stuck to Pages instead of Groups, with all the added functionalities now.
If the sender is the first and only fan, the recipient of the invitation doesn’t even see the name of the person who sent it.
Great for kickstarting a new fanpage without having to harass your friends to become a fan. A simple invitation, they won’t mind.
I think this is great Nick, but I do worry about spamlike requests from admins. Eventually, my guess is Facebook will limit the Page invitations in the same way app invites are limited. Do I invite my 2100 friends to all become fans of theKbuzz? How about supporters of Dave kerpen for my political career? Guess that’s my problem.
Hmmmm…