Facebook Expands Free Credits Promotion in CrowdStar's Hello City

Facebook introduced a new promotion of its Credits virtual currency last week: users could get five free credits in exchange for installing CrowdStar’s new Hello City simulation game.

Those who have earned those points may have seen a followup email from CrowdStar since then. The email contains a link that users can share with their friends, who can then earn 5 Credits themselves from adding the app.

Users who were already playing the game, meanwhile, are getting the option to click on a button to get their 5 Credits; these users can also give 5 free Credits to their friends (along with an install of Hello City), by posting a notice and a link to the promotion on their walls and in friends’ News Feeds.

CrowdStar is already Facebook’s official testing partner for Credits; last winter, it launched the first app from a major developer to use Credits exclusively; in later promotions, such...

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