Well, it was only a matter of time before all the wisenhiemers who chose geeky/hacky usernames would break something. Now it looks like whoever went for something.aspx has broken something within Facebook. Yesterday, one of the guys in the office (a Mr. T Jones) chose 500.aspx as his URL. Everything worked, until last night when all he got when he logged in was:
Trying the other famous aspxer, Christine Shipley, the same thing happens. But if you Google her URL… guess what shows?:
Google’s already indexing these new URLs, so it seems that Facebook better get some coding done in a hurry, either than or crater these vanity URLs at let the geeks reselect.
Update 6/17/09 – it seems that the .aspx URLs are working again.
Update midday 6/17/09 – Broken again.
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