Top 10 Facebook Apps And Upstarts, Week Of November 23rd
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 FishVille is at the top of the upstarts chart for the second week in a row, this time picking up 6.7 (+42 percent) million users to bring the aquarium simulator's total player count up to nearly 16 million. The company's FarmVille also popped up in the list after a week's absence, appearing at #2 after attracting 2.2 million (+3 percent).
Happy Pets, CrowdStar's newly launched pet adoption title is growing fast, boasting a 70 percent gain with 2.1 million new users. Other new games in the top ten "gainers" include Mob Science's Snowball Fight (+947,440, +74 percent), RockYou's Zoo World (+856,129, +40 percent), and LOLapps Champions Online (+723,726, +100 percent).
That last title is particularly interesting not just for its ability to immediately pull in 700,000 users; it's the product of a partnership with Atari’s Cryptic Studios to adapt the PC MMORPG Champions Online using LOLapps RPG platform. Cryptic hopes the app will drive players to pick up the $40 game and sign up for a paid subscription.
Missing from this week's top 10 list of upstarts are LOLapps's Diva Life, Meteor Games's Island Paradise, and fighting game Little Warrior -- the first two dropped to #14 and #15 respectively, while the third title saw no significant user gains in the past seven days.
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There was hardly any changes in the top 10 most popular Facebook apps aside from Zynga's Texas HoldEm Poker losing some 317,000 users and falling from #7 to #9. YoVille, another release from the prolific developer, shed around 130,000 users but still ascended from #8 to #7, replacing the card game.
Top 10 Most Popular Facebook Apps:
All charts and data are courtesy of Facebook application metrics and trends site AppData.
