This week’s AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users is mostly a listing of larger apps that enjoyed rebounds, but not real growth, in their DAU over the seven-day period, along with a few showing new spikes that may not last. But as usual, there are also a few newer names that are deserving of some attention.

Here’s the full list:

	Name	DAU	Gain	Gain,%
1.	Phrases	6,076,562	+1,684,209	+38%
2.	My Year In Status	1,035,811	+1,035,103	+146,201%
3.	FarmVille	17,200,603	+842,502	+5%
4.	Frases Diarias	1,572,254	+554,836	+55%
5.	BandPage by RootMusic	507,871	+505,206	+18,957%
6.	Windows Live Messenger	10,503,808	+451,037	+4%
7.	Texas HoldEm Poker	6,588,421	+425,384	+7%
8.	MindJolt Games	2,089,241	+412,851	+25%
9.	Yahoo!	2,549,153	+377,062	+17%
10.	Birthday Calendar	347,781	+347,744	+939,849%
11.	FrontierVille	7,114,716	+297,941	+4%
12.	德州撲克(中文版)	1,212,817	+250,921	+26%
13.	Horoscopes	2,858,230	+231,169	+9%
14.	Badoo	618,051	+213,682	+53%
15.	Status Shuffle	1,003,146	+207,263	+26%
16.	Family Feud	1,159,021	+200,759	+21%
17.	Games	1,457,841	+200,683	+16%
18.	My Top Fans Pro	194,417	+186,087	+2,234%
19.	Die Herausforderung der Städte	185,624	+185,139	+38,173%
20.	My Band: Profile Pages for Bands and Musicians	195,933	+180,218	+1,147%

Phrases, Frases Diarias and a handful of others are showing significant, unexplained spikes in DAU. With larger apps of their sort, it’s usually best to wait a few days before judging whether the gains are permanent.

My Year In Status is an older app that, almost exactly a year ago, briefly enjoyed a high of 7.3 million monthly actives and almost a million DAU. It has since crawled along at just a few thousand users. It can thus be considered something of a holiday app, attracting users only toward the end of the year.

Skipping down past some less notable apps, Birthday Calendar comes in at number 11; this is an app that we made note of earlier this week; it works by generating calendars with embedded photos of friends, who are then tagged.

Finally, My Top Fans Pro is enjoying fast growth, using the same mechanic as Birthday Calendar; after generating a picture of your top fans, it asks you to publish the photo, which will notify all of those friends simultaneously.