Microsoft Live, Pet Rescue Saga, Obama, Huffington Post and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Microsoft Live gained the most daily active users this week on our list of top growing Facebook apps by DAU, gaining 10 percent to approach 15 million DAU.

The titles below grew between 200,000 and 1.3 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook.

Top Gainers This Week

Name DAU Gain Gain %
1.  Microsoft Live 14,800,000 +1,300,000   + 10%
2.  Yahoo! Social Bar 3,600,000 +800,000   + 29%
3.  Birthdays 5,300,000 +700,000   + 15%
4.  Spotify 8,300,000 +700,000   + 9%
5.  الأبراج اليومية 660,000 +580,000   + 725%
6.  Birthdays 1,719,971 +519,971   + 43%
7.  Bing 3,931,784 +431,784   + 12%
8.  Muzy.com 1,600,000 +400,000   + 33%
9.  MiCalendario – Cumpleaños 980,000 +400,000   + 69%
10.  Yahoo! 2,600,000 +400,000   + 18%
11.  TripAdvisor™ 1,887,857 +387,857   + 26%
12.  Pet Rescue Saga 360,000 +356,000   + 8,900%
13.  Obama 2012 450,000 +340,000   + 309%
14.  The Huffington Post 690,000 +310,000   + 82%
15.  Candy Crush Saga 5,100,000 +300,000   + 6%
16.  Pandora 1,300,000 +300,000   + 30%
17.  Scribd 1,600,000 +300,000   + 23%
18.  Bejeweled Blitz 2,900,000 +300,000   + 12%
19.  Onedate 550,000 +270,000   + 96%
20.  Dragon City 3,500,000 +200,000   + 6%

 

Birthday apps were popular as was horoscope app الأبراج اليومية at No. 5.

No. 12 King.com’s Pet Rescue Saga saw strong growth after its debut on Facebook on Oct. 30.

Obama 2012 came in at No. 13, and as we wrote about earlier in the week, was significantly outperforming similar apps on Mitt Romney’s page. The Huffington Post seemed to also enjoy an uptick with the election, appearing at No. 14 this week.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.

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