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@Facebook Launching Status Tagging for All Users Today
September 14th, 2009
| By Justin Smith | 10 Comments » |
Last week, Facebook announced that it was launching “status tagging,” a new way to tag friends, Pages, groups, and events in status updates much like mentions on @twitter work. Now, the feature is live for all users.
Here’s how it works: when writing a status update in the publisher, you can tag connections by using the “@” operator to select any friend, Page, group, or event in a dropdown menu. When a connection is tagged, its name is automatically linked, and your post also shows up on their wall. When you’re tagged, a notification is sent to you as well, and you can remove tags of yourself in others’ posts. It’s a very engaging and powerful way to include friends and connections in status updates.
It’s important to note that Facebook is enabling status tagging for all of a user’s Facebook connections – not just friends, but Pages, groups, and events as well. This means Page managers will now have a major new channel for tracking comments and feedback about their brand or business.
Until today, brands have been able to track posts and comments made on their Facebook Page directly by fans, as well as search public comments made by Facebook users through Facebook’s new real time search. However, starting today, all @ tags will appear on the wall of the Page as well, even though users never visited the Page. That’s a big deal for Page administrators hoping to gain more insight into how they’re being talked about inside Facebook.
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September 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The wiki dosen’t seem to be updated yet, but to post this via the api, just use @[user_id:Name]
Eg… @[6308333870:Cut Out + Keep]
September 14th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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September 14th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
It’s a really nice thing. Status tagging helps a lot in sending a direct message via tagging.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:47 am
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September 15th, 2009 at 1:47 am
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September 16th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Hi Justin,
I did some tests and the result is that this new feature could be problematic for businesses because when you tag a brand public profile (aka fan page) the comment appear on the page wall.
At that point the only option available to a public profile administrator is removing the message. He can’t leave a comment on the message (he can do that with his personal identity but only if the tagger is a friend of him) and he can’t remove the tag from the wall message.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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