Social Loyalty: The Future Of Facebook Credits
If you first would like to take a look at this stunning social media count or look at my former article on virtual goods (84,000 views), you will probably understand below story better. It’s about the future of Facebook credits.
What’s the buzz? In a presentation today, Facebook’s showed its official currency, Facebook Credits. During this presentation, Liu discussed some of the new features Facebook plans to launch in the near future.
One new feature is called App2user Credits. This is a set of promotions that allow users to earn Facebook Credits in ways that don’t involve paying with their credit card.
Liu presented three examples. First, Liu said that users could earn credits through credit card reward programs (she said Chase was already involved in setting up a program).
A second example involved; Plastic Jungle, the service that lets you sell gift cards you don’t want. And users can earn credits as they shop using services like TrialPay.
Liu said that Facebook wants to make this a platform that everyone can plug into, so it sounds like there will be many other ways to earn credits.
App2user Credits is slated to launch this June. Other future plans: Facebook will be seeding non-paying users with credits (to help get them in the habit of using them) and will also have a way to seed inactive users in the hopes of getting them to interact with apps again.
There are also plans to offer bulk discounting on Credits, which will be paid for using some of the 30% fee that Facebook charges developers to use Credits.
There will also be a feature for ‘auto top-up’, which can automatically refill a user’s account with 50 credits whenever they have fewer than five. Read more at this Tech Crunch post.
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I guess all of these are strategies to give more importance to ‘credits’ as the real online money. Once people get used to it, where they can get it and where they can spend it, I’m sure it’s usage will increase exponentially.