{"id":49987,"date":"2012-05-14T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T10:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49987"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T10:51:51","slug":"facebook-testing-paid-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49987-facebook-testing-paid-features.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing paid features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> is currently testing a new feature which allows users to pay in order to highlight a post or status update.<\/p>\n<p>The new system lets users promote their posts by adding the highlight feature, which will make the post stand out as a featured update to friends and other users.<\/p>\n<p>Users of the social network can choose whether to use the service and further make payments through PayPal or credit card.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes as a result of the company&#8217;s forthcoming IPO, which has speculated to be at around $100 billion (R8,19 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The feature will allow the company to generate greater revenue, while also providing users with better utility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/05\/11\/facebook-testing-pay-to-show-friends-status-updates\/\"><strong>VentureBeat<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social network integrates pay-to-highlight posts on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,11643,4100],"class_list":["post-49987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-highlight-feature","tag-social-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}