Breaking: Facebook Username Landrush to Start June 13 at Midnight
The Facebook vanity URL landrush is on. Starting this Saturday morning, June 13, at 12:01am EDT, Facebook users will be asked to choose a username for their Facebook profile that will replace the current numeric URLs for profile pages.
According to Facebook, users will be able to choose a username on a “first-come, first-serve” basis for their profile and the Facebook Pages that they administer by visiting this page after midnight on Friday night. Users will also see a notice on their home page asking them to choose a username/URL:
When the landrush starts, users will be able to choose just one username for their profile and for each of the Pages that they administer (they will not be available for groups or events). Usernames must be at least five characters long and can only contain letters, numbers, or periods. They will only be available in Roman characters at launch.
However, users should be careful to choose the right one: once you have made a choice, you won’t be allowed to change it or transfer it to someone else later on. Facebook isn’t allowing transfers in order to undercut the rampant squatter market that would otherwise develop – although there will still definitely be cases of abuse. Facebook says that generic words like “flowers” or “pizza” will not be available as usernames, though we’re not sure how exactly those rules will work.
Facebook says that if you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you “may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we’ve taken to prevent abuse or ‘squatting’ on names.”
For developers, usernames will not be accessible through the Platform API at this time, so developers will not be able to access or store usernames. Rather, they’ll have to stick to user IDs.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
this isn’t quite the organized manner i was hoping for. they could have rolled them out by sign up date chunks (that seems kind of fair, even though it’d probably cost me my preferred url), or by auctions. oh well. saturday night, it’s on.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I hope I can get Laurent!
June 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Looking like it is Midnight Saturday EDT not PDT
its also now counting down to Saturday June 13th 5:01
as i BST it do back up the EDT allfacebook has
June 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
@Trey – if they did it in order of when people signed up, then they’d just be guaranteeing that the first Facebook users would get most of the good / obvious usernames. By having a free-for-all, Facebook cannot be accused of giving anyone an unfair advantage.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Well if the person likes getting up late or not nocturnal then some western europe can accuse other timezones of unfair advantage (if they wanted to be picky)
UK it will be 5am France and CEDT 6am – early mornings for them ;)
June 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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June 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
It will be available for Pages only if it has more than 1000 fans before 31st May. So bad. :(
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June 9th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Oh boy, I’d better make sure I get in there early or my username could go pretty quickly!
June 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Surely the servers will crash with everyone logging on as close to this time as possible?
June 9th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
This is a *beep* nightmare. So we have to login with our usernames now ? lame !! lame !!
June 9th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Great Idea! Especially for those looking to market a Small Business to their FB friends.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
It looks like fb is following failed twitter. They should restrict vanity urls to Pages only.
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June 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
So what happens if you don’t meet that 1,000 fan requirement right now. does that mean you NEVER get the chance for a vanity URL? Will you be able to claim one at a later date?
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June 10th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Facebook Users eligability:
Joined before 3pm EDT June 9th
can claim from 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009
Joined after 3pm EDT June 9th then:
Sunday, June 28, 2009 to become eligible to claim a username.
http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=898 (Usernames: User Eligability)
There is no announcements (yet) of a acceptance of those after post cut-off date (31st May) for pages but likely any changes will appear http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=900 (Usernames: Facebook Pages)
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June 12th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I got my name as the username.
You don’t need 1,000 Fans to get your own username.
Your Facebook account must be registered before June 9 as the only criteria.
Mike
June 12th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
This blog is speculating http://bit.ly/7SBTX Chrome had the advantage over firefox in getting the username.
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June 15th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Unfortunately, the same thing has happened with facebook url’s that happened with traditional urls – you have people grabbing urls for institutions and companies in order to sell them back to them.
I don’t think this was the intent of the facebook team. Too bad they couldn’t have come up with a way to prevent this…
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August 29th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
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