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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.




FB could make deals with advertisers (like Coke) regardless of premium accounts. Twitter already does what you describe with their sponsored tweets.


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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