Sunday, February 12, 2012

Facebook trick @[266258707803:0] deciphered

Read more at http://www.facebook.com/notes/abhishek/facebook-trick-2662587078030-deciphered/318575701522280
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Trying my hand at facebook profile id's and the linked viral marketing strategy being used these days-
For the last few days, I could see random posts asking users to post @[randomnumber:0] on the wall posts or comments.

With a little investigtion this could be concluded to be profile id's assigned by facebook for uniquely identifying profiles/pages etc - the same number could be substituted for random number above.

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=randomnumber
This randomnumber redirects you to your own profile if it's 0 and to Mark Z's profile if it's 4.

Once you know which profile id to use, you can design your own magic statement saying:
Paste @[profileid:0] in the wall post/comments and see the magic!

Now, the big question is how to find the profile id for your pages/profile given the fact that facebook gave the privilege to choose a fancy username to everyone based on certain criteria (eg 25 friends or 25 likes on a fan page etc), and replaced the profile id in the URL with the facebook username.

* Old/very new/non frequent users can surely see the profile id in the URL of course*

This could be found easily if you know the username, eg, for this page:

Visit https://graph.facebook.com/mythoughts and you can see the id on the very first line as
"id": "266258707803"

That's it - You are ready an ace up your sleeve!!

Few ids to experiments from my side- @[profileid:0]  - eg,

@[266258707803:0]
@[126863274060089:0]
@[198067066881929:0]
@[224494230936068:0]
@[255802367790649:0]

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