Facebook lets people pay to give posts priority

Fresh from passing the billion-member mark, Facebook is letting members in the United States pay seven US dollars each to have personal posts given priority in feeds seen by their friends.

“When you promote a post - whether it’s wedding photos, a garage sale, or big news - you bump it higher in news feeds so your friends and subscribers are more likely to notice it,” Facebook’s Abhishek Doshi said in a blog post.

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