Idea: Give out facebook credits for posting

[tpearl5]

Yep - see my last post.

[swiftor]

If you were to do this, this would cost you money. Probably lots of money.

Only Facebook itself is allowed to give out credits for free. Companies like Trialpay provide a large cut of their completed offers to Facebook.

[tpearl5]

So it looks like smaller businesses will not be able to hand out credits for a while. Right now the min a business can spend on FB credits for promotional purposes is $50k over a 6 month period.

[tpearl5]

From what I can gather Facebook is only letting certain companies handle giving out credits, like IFeelGoods and TrialPay. I know TrialPay only deals with larger companies but I'm not sure about IFeelGoods.

[tpearl5]

Yeah I just realized it would go the other way... hrm

[Wayne Luke]

That seems to be for selling things in your app for credits. Like buying the rare rainbow sheep in Farmville (just an example). It is an interesting concept though.

[Ace]

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed, unless I missed something here: https://developers.facebook.com/policy/credits/

Aside from the fact that you want to give away credits, and that page is pretty much all about allowing your users to spend them on your premium content, then you get paid at the end of the month.

Under your system, you'd be paying FB at the end of the month, I don't think that's feasible.

[tpearl5]

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed, unless I missed something here: https://developers.facebook.com/policy/credits/

[Wayne Luke]

Is this even allowed under Facebook's terms?

[tpearl5]

I know - I wanted to gauge is this is even a plausible idea first.

[Yves R.]

You should post every request feature into the tracker

[tpearl5]

People are crazy about facebook credits and I'd love to be able to leverage them to get people to post more using the new fb app. I'm thinking of an interface that would allow the admin to set how many posts per fb credit. Doing this wouldn't be for everyone since it would cost money, but I believe it could really boost activity.

Is there any chance this could be an added feature in the future?