The Big Money Facebook 50

December 2, 2009 by William
Filed under Affiliate Resources

Lists seem to have an irresistible lure for business publications. Some have been with us for so long — the Dow Jones industrial average, Fortune 500, Forbes’ billionaire list — that it’s hard to imagine a time when they didn’t exist.

Still, there is room for a different kind of list, one that measures value not strictly through dollars and cents but rather how companies are performing in the nebulous, yet all-important world of social media. Thus, we present The Big Money Facebook 50, a ranking of companies making the best use of Facebook.

Why Facebook? After all, social media is highly fickle; there is some reason to think that as soon as a site becomes an effective platform for corporate promotion, its irrelevance is imminent. That could still happen to Facebook, and in the last several months Twitter has gained a lot of momentum and millions of users. For now, however, Facebook still offers several advantages over its rivals: size, return usage, and the depth and variety of what companies can do.

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