Dive summary:

• Facebook fell far short of the 30% of users needed for the user vote to be binding.
• There were 588,803 votes against the change to the user policy out of the 668,500 votes cast.
• A chance remains that Facebook could revise the changes or only implement some of the changes.

From the article:

… Facebook will now attempt to pull in more qualitative feedback on how users feel about proposed site governance and policy changes. Users will be able to submit questions to the site’s Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and chime in on webcasts with Facebook’s policy team. Though this might be seen as a slight to users, the old voting system was badly broken. There was likely a better compromise available than simply eliminating the vote, but that time has passed.