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How to Get Around Facebook’s Lack of Vanity URLs

According to Stan Schroeder over at Mashable, Facebook is testing user interest in offering vanity URLs (example: facebook.com/johnboyle)…for money.

This is probably more of an effort to target businesses than actual users but I’m sure many users will bite regardless.

Facebook’s long cumbersome URLs can be frustrating for marketing purposes. Here’s a little trick I use to get around it – a simple redirect script on my own site.

For example instead of trying to use this link on marketing materials:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=10785050283&ref=ts

I simply use this link which redirects to the above URL: http://www.trainofthought.info/facebook/

Simple, easy and free.

Hot Chick Spam Hits Twitter

Reminiscent of MySpace, I am beginning to get hot chick spam on Twitter. I won’t link to the spam profile as I don't want to encourage it.

Anyone else seeing this? I wonder how long it will take Twitter to add a “Mark as Spam” link when a Spam Twit follows you.

Of course I could be wrong. She may really like me. ;-)