Photo Tagging Helps Apps Ascend This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Apps by DAU

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:

Top Gainers This Week
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.

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