Top 20 Up & Coming Facebook Apps for January 19, 2009
It’s the beginning of a new week, and that means it’s time to take a look at which applications have been spreading across the Facebook Platform over the last 7 days.
Here’s a look at today’s Top 20 fastest-growing mid-sized applications on Facebook from AppData. These are the top apps in the 100K-1M monthly user range with the highest MAU growth in the last week.
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain, % |
Developer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  |
Mardi Gras | 162,858 | +97,361 | +148.7 | — |
| 2. |  |
Send Prosperity | 148,305 | +66,154 | +80.5 | Martin Wee |
| 3. |  |
Philadelphia Eagles Fans | 223,544 | +95,674 | +74.8 | Watercooler |
| 4. |  |
Pittsburgh Steelers Fans | 183,002 | +77,178 | +72.9 | Watercooler |
| 5. |  |
Team Great Britain Fans | 191,638 | +74,138 | +63.1 | Watercooler |
| 6. |  |
PetSociety Addicted | 126,888 | +48,153 | +61.2 | — |
| 7. |  |
Pool Practice | 104,792 | +36,491 | +53.4 | — |
| 8. |  |
Always Athletes | 239,819 | +82,147 | +52.1 | — |
| 9. |  |
Are you spoiled? | 114,982 | +34,299 | +42.5 | — |
| 10. |  |
Shopaholic Magazine | 103,445 | +28,926 | +38.8 | — |
| 11. |  |
Toast | 174,463 | +47,417 | +37.3 | — |
| 12. |  |
MAFFIA NEW | 415,162 | +108,565 | +35.4 | — |
| 13. |  |
Circle of Moms | 979,342 | +247,060 | +33.7 | — |
| 14. |  |
The Pink Ribbon | 492,376 | +115,387 | +30.6 | The Pink Ribbon |
| 15. |  |
Social Chatrooms | 130,127 | +29,417 | +29.2 | — |
| 16. |  |
The Ultimate Hitman | 172,322 | +35,480 | +25.9 | — |
| 17. |  |
FB Police Department | 102,386 | +20,505 | +25.0 | — |
| 18. |  |
Collect luck | 209,525 | +40,363 | +23.9 | — |
| 19. |  |
Super Flair | 101,871 | +19,013 | +23.0 | — |
| 20. |  |
Do you think…? | 679,084 | +126,418 | +22.9 | Thiinkle |
As you can see, Mardi Gras has been the most explosive growing app this week. The gifting application follows a template that has been used by the developer to achieve reach with a variety of seasonal apps over the last several months. It appears to be working well this time around with Mardi Gras. Send Prosperity, coming in at #2, is a similar application.
Remaining in the top 10 this week are three applications from Watercooler: Philadelphia Eagles Fans, Pittsburgh Steelers Fans, and Team Great Britain Fans. (Note: I work with Watercooler.) Even though the Ravens and Cardinals were fighting for a shot to go to the Super Bowl this weekend as well, their fan applications are nowhere to be found in the top 20.
Also making an appearance this week:
- Super Flair – a variant on the content sharing app for which it borrows part of its name, developed by Berkeley Malagon at Microsoft, Steven Malagon, and Mike Monaco.
- Shopaholic Magazine – a virtual gifting application promoting Touchstone Pictures’ “Confessions of a Shopaholic”
- PetSociety Addicted – another virtual gifting application, riding the coat tails of Playfish’s popular Pet Society game
- The Pink Ribbon – an application building awareness of and raising money for breast cancer research that has reached nearly half a million people
January 19th, 2009 at 8:22 am
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January 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am
The post states that PetSociety Addicted is “riding the coat tails of Playfish’s popular Pet Society game”. That seems generous. Does anyone disagree that this game, unless it’s actually made by Playfish, is blatantly violating the intellectual property of Playfish?
As a test, try changing it to “Spore Addicted” and have it be about Spore characters. Would EA not consider that an IP violation?
If find it odd that so much IP theft occurs in funware, that IP owners don’t seem to care, and that Facebook tolerates it.
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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