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Re:What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Could... by electromagnetic on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:47PM (#3800020)
Freemium for facebook would be kind of ingenious, but it would almost certainly lead to the 'premium' accounts getting higher visibility in viewers feeds.

Is your aunt glenda passing away going to make your feed? Nope, because Coca Cola wants to tell you that they've got a limited edition coke bottle out for the 2012 Olympics.

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Re:What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Could... by amirmc on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:54PM (#3800058)
FB could make deals with advertisers (like Coke) regardless of premium accounts. Twitter already does what you describe with their sponsored tweets.
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Re:What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Could... by Monotoko on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @06:43PM (#3800248)
FB also does this already, I saw a sponsored post when a friend liked eBay, it appeared at the top of my news feed and said "This is a sponsored story".

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=154500071282557

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