Top 10 Facebook Apps And Upstarts, Week Of November 9th
Every week, we'll examine the most popular Facebook applications (according to MUA, monthly active users), as well as the social network's up-and-coming apps that have picked up the most users in the past seven days.
Zynga's FarmVille leads the pack, as it has for some time now, with some 63.7 million users, nearly double that of the second most popular program, charity applciation Causes (35.2 million).
Zynga dominated the top ten list with a total of five apps: FarmVille, Café World at #3 (28.4 million), Mafia Wars at #4 (26.8 million), YoVille at #8 (19.8 million), and Texas HoldEm Poker at #9 (18.9 million).
CrowdStar's Happy Aquarium placed 5th with 25.1 million monthly active users, as Playfish's (and now Electronic Arts') Pet Society was #6 at 21.6 million, and Slashkey's Farm Town was #8 with 18.5 million.
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As for the applications that have seen the biggest increases in active users, Happy Aquarium is at the top of the chart, having attracted an additional 2.4 million users, a 9.4 percent jump over last week's count. Quiz creator application Quiz Monster is #2, bringing in 1.9 million new users (+13.2 percent).
Mafia Wars, which didn't even appear in the top 20 "gainers" list last week, gunned its way into #3 by pulling in 1.1 million fresh faces (+4.1 percent). Other Zynga apps didn't perform as well -- while #5 Farmville enjoyed 781,298 new users, that's a big drop from the 1.3 million increase from the previous week. And Café World, before #2 with a 4.2 million gain, feel off the top 10 to #13, now only rising by 394,972.
What could have caused this drop? Perhaps Facebook's recent changes to its news feed, which now prevent app publishers from posting public notifications, made it more difficult for Zynga to grab the attention of and bring in new blood?
There are several other interesting items on the list of upstarts, like #6 Island Paradise (+773,460, +14.5 percent) from Meteor Games, an indie studio founded by the co-creators of Nickelodeon's immensely popular Neopets. Little Warrior is another indie title, coming in at #10 with a 32.9 percent spike as 541,771 new players tried out the fighting game.
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All charts and data are courtesy of Facebook application metrics and trends site AppData.
