Facebook to charge for some message delivery

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook on Thursday began testing the feasibility of charging to guarantee that messages from strangers make it into inboxes of intended recipients at the social network. The Facebook Messages test, limited to the United States (US), lets a sender pay a dollar to make sure an electronic missive is routed to someone's "inbox" even when the person isn't in their circle of friends. Facebook messaging system was billed as being designed to deflect seemingly unwanted correspondence into an "other" folder that can be ignored. Facebook said that it wanted to determine whether adding a "financial signal" improves its formula for delivering "relevant and useful" messages to members' inboxes.

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@Tommyksh » 21 Dec '12, 2am
Sounds like bullshit to me “@STcom: Facebook to charge for some message delivery [link]”
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@ChickenMacabre » 21 Dec '12, 2am
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Facebook to charge for some message delivery: December 21, 2012 6:02 AMSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook on Thursda... [link]
@stompsingapore » 21 Dec '12, 1am
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Facebook to charge for some message delivery [link]
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WSLive: Facebook to charge for some message delivery: December 21, 2012 6:02 AMSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook on... [link]