In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by brands, media outlets, celebs, and wanna-be celebs.
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46 Responses
12.4.2009
Geocities + 15 years = Facebook
12.4.2009
In other news, 100% of Facebook Fan Pages are stupid.
12.4.2009
There are a lot of duplicate fan pages.-Captain Obvious
12.4.2009
I had 4 fans running the other day, … well its hot here!
12.4.2009
not really
12.4.2009
Really….Vin Diesel has 7 million fans?
12.4.2009
You should make a Fan Page about that.
12.4.2009
The bona fide fan pages get taken down, too. I received a take down notice from FB for a page about breakfast sausage that had generated 50 organic fans with 0 promotion.
12.4.2009
Incorrect! I can not blast my phat Ludacris "Roll Out" MIDI file on Facebook, no matter how hard I try.
12.4.2009
In other news, not everyone gets to be famous.
12.4.2009
And 100% are wasting their time with twitter
12.4.2009
FACE *****!
12.4.2009
And no matter what I try, Facebook will NOT let me tile a 320×240 background image of a Corvette while using Comic Sans 24pt font of the same color on top of it. I want my friends to be required to highlight my text in order to read it. Not only does the highlighted text look awesome, but it makes my page interactive. Geocities let me do that. Facebook, however, enforces its sterile, organized and aesthetically pleasing UI upon me. That’s simply not acceptable and I won’t have it. Hell, I don’t even have anywhere to put my animated GIF of a smiley face rolling left and right. If I can’t have that, then ***** Facebook. Geocities would let me put that image wherever I wanted it, and I could put 55 of them at once if I deemed it necessary. And I did.Conclusion of this study: Geocities let you do so much more cool *****, and that was in the 90’s. Facebook is therefore doomed to a far more tragic fate. I’ll give it until next July. You can quote me on that, TechCrunch.
12.4.2009
86% of statistics on the Internet are made up.
12.4.2009
98% of the time
12.4.2009
anyone else annoyed by the messed up x-axis title?its log scale…
12.4.2009
*****, this explains why the fan page dedicated to me has only 999 fans.Damn you statistics!!
12.4.2009
can your Mac play crysis?
12.4.2009
no, but my pc can play valve games
12.4.2009
I bet you couldn’t get 1000 fans
12.4.2009
Toys R Us was ripping up the fan scene this season: allfacebook.com/2009/11/toysrus-becomes …The marketers are finally starting to figure out how to do this right.
12.4.2009
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
12.4.2009
minus "Brought to you by Geocities" pop-up(before pop-up blockers, people)
12.4.2009
Your Mac can play games better than my PC?Yeah, no, I don’t think so.
12.4.2009
You on your fifteenth minute of fame.And on the sixteenth, beginneth the lame.And on seventeen, you lose everything.The twenty-first is the worst.Wishing you was eleven popping like you was seven.With the feeling when you were seconds
12.4.2009
"Trolls who just post dumb insults in an effort to make up for not being a Mac user MAY be banned and their posts MAY be deleted."Funny you’d post that on your group when the group’s title is pure flamebait. Stay classy. ;D
12.4.2009
On the little graph on the page, the x-axis runs to 100 Million but really it’s just a waste of space (the article itself says MJ has the most followers at 10 million), and the scale being logarithmic seems pointless to me too. I guess it makes a nicer curve or something.
12.4.2009
Do I know you stranger or stalker on facebook?
12.4.2009
can your PC play crysis?
12.4.2009
One of these days…. I’m going to cut you into little pieces!
12.4.2009
groups suck, fan pages FTW
12.4.2009
Cool story, bro.
12.4.2009
999 members is actually quite a lot
12.4.2009
Slow news day?
12.4.2009
Depending on what the fan page is for, 1000 true fans is more than enough in certain industries to make a living. If you’re a regional musician who can get 1000 people to buy a $20 concert ticket and a $7 album download, you can at least get by. You don’t need to be famous by traditional standards to be effective.
12.4.2009
37% are totally careless.
12.4.2009
It’s much lower than I thought. Not a bad system then. Interesting.
12.4.2009
I made one. It’s for a sparrow I called Mr. Pudge. He’s not even a good-looking sparrow, but this was why I picked him. He has 6 fans from New Zealand to France. He’s planning on some paid ads and select appearances while he develops his cable TV series.
12.4.2009
this is about facebook though
12.4.2009
80/20 rule.
12.4.2009
***** FACEBOOK
12.4.2009
I started a Facebook group with over 50,000 members. facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204592391It’s the closest I’ll ever get to "15 minutes".
12.4.2009
And I bet you I couldn’t care less…
12.4.2009
Interesting how only 297 fan pages have over 1 million fans.
12.4.2009
Facebook is so 2008. We should all be tweeting now.
12.4.2009
this stat makes me happy as the fan page for my website has almost 1000 fansmaybe digg users can take it over the top? page is at facebook.com/freefoodatou