6 Million Users, 7,000 Pages Get Vanity URLs This Weekend

Now that the Facebook username landrush has come and gone, let’s take a look at the stats from the first weekend of Facebook username registration:

1. Nearly 6,000,000 usernames have been issued overall – just under 3% of Facebook’s overall userbase. In the 60 hours since the doors were opened, that works out to about 100,000 username registrations per hour. Facebook reported 500,000 usernames in the first 15 minutes and 3 million in the first 14 hours, so the overall username registration rate is decreasing as one would imagine.

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