Significant Changes Await Apps on This Week's List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU

Quiz Planet is still on the rise, leading up this week's AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users just as it did the Monday monthly active user list. But this CrowdStar app may be shrinking soon, as the changes that Facebook announced yesterday to app discovery could significantly impact non-game apps that spread through wall posts. We've heard that some quiz apps enjoy much of their growth through direct invites between users, which would significantly mitigate the impact. But there are multiple quiz types, each with their own potential problems from Facebook's changes. Friend Facts™, for instance, relies on wall posts between users to spread, a channel that Facebook said would mostly close. This may be the last week we see it on our top 20 lists. We'll have more analysis on the potential impacts later this morning. In the meantime, here's the list: Top Gainers This Week Name DAU Gain Gain,% 1. Quiz Planet 949,356 +506,633 +114% 2. FarmVille 17,872,226 +474,339 +3% 3. Texas HoldEm Poker 6,195,504 +427,949 +7% 4. Frases Diarias 846,784 +422,429 +100% 5. Yahoo! 2,243,478 +301,621 +16% 6. Windows Live Messenger 5,092,750 +281,626 +6% 7. Café World 4,753,385 +244,394 +5% 8. Mafia Wars Game 4,242,515 +231,654 +6% 9. Happy Pets 1,252,445 +192,315 +18% 10. Treasure Isle 3,805,755 +190,748 +5% 11. Millionaire City 1,716,187 +184,096 +12% 12. Restaurant City 2,615,544 +183,664 +8% 13. 開心魚塘 224,314 +152,980 +214% 14. Give Hearts 971,612 +148,070 +18% 15. Friend Facts™ 251,099 +121,655 +94% 16. Phrases 4,335,735 +115,874 +3% 17. Monster World 650,044 +104,091 +19% 18. The Price Is Right Game 314,838 +84,303 +37% 19. Samsung Mobile 695,248 +79,843 +13% 20. Zoo Paradise 665,162 +79,429 +14% Yahoo! has made an appearance this week, although its app is still basically just a set of visual bookmarks to various Yahoo properties. Its DAU is slightly higher than a month ago, but the app's user numbers have been fairly volatile in between, so it's hard to tell whether it's really growing. Windows Live Messenger, on the other hand, is definitely still growing. By DAU, it's now the fifth-largest app on Facebook, with over five million DAU. Microsoft has millions more users who could potentially use the Facebook-instant messenger hookup, so it may not stop there. And looking way down to number 19, it's worth noting that Samsung Mobile is on its way up, with 2.3 million monthly actives and almost 700,000 DAU. That makes for a lower percentage of daily users than other mobile apps have still seen, but Samsung's new Android devices are still fairly new to the market, so the numbers could change.

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Significant Changes Await Apps on This Week's List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU

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