Well, it’s official now, Facebook usernames are live and doing well. In a wild frenzy to grab their custom vanity URL’s, Facebook users created over 200,000 custom user names in the first 3 minutes of Saturday morning (and yup, I was one them too). After 15 minutes, Facebook reported over 500,000 new user names. One of the highlights of the night was Benjamin Standefer snagging Ashton Kutscher’s aplusk moniker (http://www.facebook.com/aplusk). Guess we’ll be seeing Ben on some news shows tomorrow!
If you didn’t get your Facebook user name yet, you still can at http://www.facebook.com/username/. And if you did already get you user name, why not post it here for everyone to see and let us all know if you got the name you wanted.
12 comments so far ↓
1 Paul Holmes // Jun 12, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I was happy to snag http://www.facebook.com/paulholmes – on most things, I’ve had to resort to the less memorable, but graciously shorter “tpholmes” (like http://twitter.com/tpholmes).
I was pretty excited to pick up http://www.facebook.com/VictoriaBusiness for our local Chamber of Commerce.
Far less exciting, I suppose, then Mr. Standefer’s royal coup.
2 Lisa Breedt // Jun 12, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I was there, and got my name in the first minute! I registered http://facebook.com/lisabreedt
I’m wondering if /lisa.breedt wouldn’t have been a better choice? Too late now! What do you think about the . ?
Well done to Facebook for not crashing!
3 Marlyse Comte // Jun 12, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Facebook is mainly personal and not business, so I resisted to use my usual online (business) name ‘mStudios’ (see http://www.mStudios.com for some good Web Design and other stuff) but stuck with ‘my’ name which is not too common: marlyse … fits my (personal) website
4 Roberto Confalonieri // Jun 13, 2009 at 2:11 am
I am happy I got mine, the one I wanted facebook.com/confa . I am still stroglling in getting one sorted for a fan page I administer.
Roberto
5 Kathleen A. Scanlon, Esq. // Jun 13, 2009 at 8:27 am
I am a NY real estate attorney and I got my FB fanity url – my username for Twitter, Yahoo, AOL, Live & Skype is KASesq94 and I got my facebook url to match:
http://facebook.com/kasesq94
6 Rod Claar // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:29 am
Wow! I got http://www.facebook.com/AgileCoach !
7 Wess Stewart // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:35 am
I got mine in the first minute as well. Of course, I had a bit of trouble deciding what I should go with, so I took this one:
http://www.facebook.com/wessrocks
Yep. Good stuff.
8 khristen // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:39 am
http://www.facebook.com/khristen
I NEVER get my name- It was awesome that I did this time!
9 Richard Arblaster // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:44 am
Yes I got mine:
http://www.facebook.com/richard.arblaster
10 Bill Dollins // Jun 13, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I got mine. It is:
http://www.facebook.com/bill.dollins
11 Katie Roberts // Jun 14, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I dig the new Facebook vanity URL option! This is one of the features in the “new” facebook that really made me smile. While I was a little slow on the draw, I was able to lock in a variation of my name. It’s hard when your name is as standard as “Katie Roberts”
http://www.facebook.com/Katie.B.Roberts
12 Tshombe // Jun 14, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I got mine! You’d think my name is rare (and it is, in the US), but there are a couple of people with my name on Facebook that may be a little disappointed:
http://www.facebook.com/tshombe
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