Facebook now hosts perhaps 4 million fan pages, branded sites operated by companies, celebrities and enthusiasts.
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Flipboard tonight also added support for Google Reader, Flickr feeds and Facebook fan pages.
Using data from Expion, it ranked the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages by percent of active fans.
Check out the Facebook fan pages for Super C-A-S-H to see how unhappy this policy made customers.
Fan pages, and recently branded social games are some of the ways companies have used to engage with Facebook users.
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The company Wednesday released a new service that enables companies to publish job listings on their Facebook Fan Pages on a Jobs Tab.
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The Open Graph API, which will take Facebook fan pages out of Facebook without sacrificing these marketing tools is the next logical step.
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Facebook's revenue is driven by its advertising business, as brands rush to the site to interact with consumers through display ads and fan pages.
Facebook alleges that MaxBounty and its affiliates create fake Facebook Fan Pages that are intended to redirect unsuspecting users away from Facebook to commercial sites.
Candidates for the Planning and Zoning Commission have fan pages.
It became a race to see how many fan pages could post a tribute to Steve Jobs and who would share the most profound Jobs article the fastest.
Many of those with Facebook fan pages have noticed recently that their posts are not being seen by as many eyes despite an increase in their number of fans.
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Such issues have come up repeatedly in the past, notably when Facebook users created fan pages celebrating accused Colorado theater shooter James Holmes or Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
She adds that fan pages are good for relationships, but for fund-raising the most lucrative tool is to get donors to share news of their donation on their own Facebook page.
The proof is in the numbers: The top Facebook fan pages have 5 million to 10 million fans, while a game like "FarmVille" at its height had about 80 million monthly active users, Mehta says.
Today, it started to remedy that situation with the acquisition of Wildfire Interactive, which brands such as Virgin and Gilt Groupe manage their social-media marketing, from placing ads to managing fan pages.
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Of course, they've been helped by the massive growth of Facebook, where the games are so popular they've spawned "fan" pages devoted to complaining about having to watch friends play them.
Open it up and the pages fan out into what looks like a paper lantern.
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As we began to create and bring to market new accessories for other genres of games, we quickly discovered that thousands of our customers were already on the web creating fan videos and Facebook pages to communicate with each other.
The changes treat as "publicly available information" the following: your name, profile picture, current city, gender and networks, and the pages you're a fan of.
Among a selection of 100 top brand pages on Facebook, those using paid media reach an audience that is on average 5.3 times larger than organic audience alone, and 5.4 times greater than the total audience of top brand pages using no paid media with a similarly sized fan base.
"It took races off the sports pages and onto the front pages, " says Robin Oakley, CNN's European Political Editor and avid racing fan.
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