Video and Mobile Apps Appear on This Week's List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
Several of Facebook’s smaller mobile connection apps, which display the site for various smartphones, have reappeared on this week’s AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by daily active users. Most of the other entries are steady growers that readers may already be familiar with, but there are also one or two other new apps.
Here’s the full list:
| Top Gainers This Week |
| Name | DAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Windows Live Messenger | 10,052,771 | +286,189 | +3% |
| 2. | Tag Friends | 661,230 | +213,553 | +48% |
| 3. | Snaptu | 796,977 | +180,075 | +29% |
| 4. | Frontier Bonuses | 145,093 | +136,310 | +1,552% |
| 5. | 小小戰爭 | 564,760 | +130,356 | +30% |
| 6. | realannoyingorange | 126,091 | +120,628 | +2,208% |
| 7. | 寵物戰爭 | 127,209 | +111,313 | +700% |
| 8. | Monster World | 1,155,302 | +109,309 | +10% |
| 9. | 開心農場 | 1,260,088 | +100,328 | +9% |
| 10. | Sprint Mobile | 256,894 | +99,284 | +63% |
| 11. | Ninja Saga | 1,054,214 | +95,524 | +10% |
| 12. | Millionaire City | 2,828,272 | +86,090 | +3% |
| 13. | Bar World | 142,589 | +80,719 | +130% |
| 14. | JibJab | 253,687 | +78,578 | +45% |
| 15. | HTC Sense | 3,152,018 | +78,091 | +3% |
| 16. | phrases 4 fun | 228,656 | +77,443 | +51% |
| 17. | Wild Ones | 638,783 | +77,396 | +14% |
| 18. | 我的王國(My Kingdom) | 721,514 | +77,304 | +12% |
| 19. | Gambatrón | 77,016 | +73,754 | +2,261% |
| 20. | แฮปปี้คนเลี้ยงหม | 476,112 | +68,966 | +17% |
Windows Live Messenger, the tie-in to the popular messaging utility, and Tag Friends, a sort of tag-based friend quiz, come in at the top of the list, but both are fairly straightforward.
Number three, Snaptu, is where the mobile apps begin. Snaptu’s specialty is building smartphone apps that work across platforms; this particular mobile app just provides access to Facebook. That’s also the case for Sprint Mobile and HTC Sense, which are respectively distributed by a carrier and handset maker. Most of these new DAUs coming to Facebook will be from phones running Android, although Ovi by Nokia also comes in just below where the list printed above cuts off, at number 21.
Realannoyingorange is one of the less pleasant things that one might choose to spend a morning watching; just imagine an orange with big teeth and eyes talking to you (or check out the screenshot below). The entire app’s purpose seems to be notifying users when Realannoyingorange posts a new video on YouTube. This could, unfortunately, be a the start of a small viral hit on Facebook.
Almost all of the games on today’s list have appeared before, with the exception of a couple of the Chinese-language apps. Over on Inside Social Games, where we restrict the list to only games, foreign-language apps are leading the charge today, far outstripping their English-language counterparts.
