Profile Analyzers Feature Strongly on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
The top entry on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those growing strongly but still under a million monthly active users, is Instant Jam, which is a close cousin to Guitar Hero. The game features music from your own computer and even allows players to use a guitar controller, if they should have one.
Various non-game apps, including the profile stats apps mentioned in the title, follow:
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Top Gainers This Week
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| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Instant Jam |
689,892 | +646,373 | +1,485% |
| 2. |  Chi Ti Segue |
563,697 | +446,861 | +382% |
| 3. |  BRAAAINS |
547,561 | +322,354 | +143% |
| 4. |  My Most Used Words |
946,677 | +278,168 | +42% |
| 5. |  Wheel Of Fortune |
641,360 | +244,899 | +62% |
| 6. |  Citizen Sports |
647,537 | +221,796 | +52% |
| 7. |  My Photos |
280,360 | +219,175 | +358% |
| 8. |  dtac one D.I.Y. |
444,520 | +207,737 | +88% |
| 9. |  Jungle Jewels – The Temple |
284,877 | +194,033 | +214% |
| 10. |  Most Mutual Friends |
392,032 | +192,549 | +97% |
| 11. |  SONEPHONE |
502,696 | +189,360 | +60% |
| 12. |  Jersey Shore |
847,936 | +187,181 | +28% |
| 13. |  PM Welcome Tab |
836,194 | +184,941 | +28% |
| 14. |  Quiz World |
500,039 | +184,292 | +58% |
| 15. |  Coffee Bar |
384,349 | +183,175 | +91% |
| 16. |  Your statistics |
528,591 | +181,926 | +52% |
| 17. |  How old do you look? |
656,204 | +169,926 | +35% |
| 18. |  PANDORA Bracelet Designer |
615,118 | +169,711 | +38% |
| 19. |  Bingo Charms |
502,727 | +166,499 | +50% |
| 20. |  Sim Hospital |
163,788 | +157,530 | +2,517% |
Chi Ti Segue is in Italian, but it makes the same claim that many English-language apps have before it: that it can see who visits your profile. Facebook’s policies prohibit this ability, of course, but Segue can at least tell you who posts to your wall.
There are other profile analyzers on the list. My Most Used Words and Most Mutual Friends both do fairly self-obvious things, except that Most Mutual Friends actually measures which books, music, shows and so forth are most popular among your social group, not which friends. Down at number 16, Your statistics claims to do all of it at once.
Citizen Sports is an older title, but the sports entertainment app has just hit an all-time MAU high. Its previous high point was way back in March of 2009 (full historical data is limited to AppData Pro). Yahoo, the app’s owner, may be doing some seasonal advertising for it.
To get a rundown of the games, head over to Inside Social Games. The remaining non-game apps of interest this morning are My Photos, at number seven, which posts a daily photo with comment and share links; SONEPHONE, which is a bit like Skype for Facebook; and PANDORA Bracelet Designer, which allows you to design and share pricey bracelets.
