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Facebook Named #1 All Time Free App in the iPhone App Store, Elements Going Open Source
April 12th, 2009
| By Justin Smith | 5 Comments » |
Facebook for iPhone continues to grow in popularity, adding about 1 million active users per month. Now, with nearly 7 million monthly active users users, the iPhone alone now represents nearly 25% of Facebook’s 30 million active mobile users worldwide.
In addition, the Facebook for iPhone app was also recently recognized by Apple as the #1 All Time Free App in the iPhone app store. It’s the first time since last December that Apple updated its all-time iPhone app leaderboards – then, Facebook for iPhone was named the 2nd most downloaded free app in the app store.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s Joe Hewitt, lead developer of Facebook for iPhone, has begun releasing various elements of the Facebook for iPhone application to the open source community through the Three20 project. While Hewitt says the code is “alpha” quality, iPhone app developers can find elements like Facebook’s photo viewer, message composer, and more on Github.
As a side note, Facebook also recently released version 2.3 of Facebook for iPhone. It’s a minor maintenance release, with several bug fixes and new German localization support.
Facebook’s Blackberry application sports about 5 million monthly active users. The company operates mobile sites at m.facebook.com (the standard mobile interface) x.facebook.com (the advanced mobile interface) as well.
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April 12th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
fb must be no. 1 by far, against some unheard app.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:49 am
[...] it won’t be too long before Facebook beats out weather for first place, though. The application is growing in popularity, adding nearly 1 million active users per month and is at 30 million actives worldwide. It was also [...]
April 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am
[...] be too long before Facebook beats out weather for first place, though. The application is growing in popularity, adding nearly 1 million active users per month and is at 30 million actives worldwide. It was also [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
[...] 排在天气应用后面的是Facebook。此应用取得了排名第二的位置，25%的用户报告他们经常使用Facebook的iphone应用。很可能不需要很久Facebook就会取代天气应用取得第一的位置。此应用越来越流行，每月增加将近1百万活跃用户，在全世界范围内共有3千万活跃用户。它最近被苹果认可为在苹果app商店中所有时间以来排名第一的免费应用。 [...]
December 13th, 2009 at 10:04 am
[...] 排在天气应用后面的是Facebook。此应用取得了排名第二的位置，25%的用户报告他们经常使用Facebook的iphone应用。很可能不需要很久Facebook就会取代天气应用取得第一的位置。此应用越来越流行，每月增加将近1百万活跃用户，在全世界范围内共有3千万活跃用户。它最近被苹果认可为在苹果app商店中所有时间以来排名第一的免费应用。 [...]