The Very Long Tail Of Facebook Applications

Earlier this week I published an article about the long tail of Facebook Pages, exploring the distribution of fans among over 1.2 million Pages. Today I decided that it would be a good idea to do a similar analysis of Facebook applications, the findings of which are a stark contrast to Monday’s article. One thing that’s immediately clear is that Facebook applications have an extremely steep drop off from the top applications. The most interesting statistic that I found was that over 60 percent of applications have between 1 and 100 monthly active users.