Facebook organized the list based on "which [games] drew the most active users and received the highest user recommendations," according to a [post on the Facebook blog][8]. Other than that, it's not 100 percent clear how Facebook came to its conclusions, as [AppData's findings][9] (as of this writing) are quite different. Perhaps user recommendations were weighed more heavily in Facebook's list. It's also possible that the recent change to how [Facebook calculates monthly active players][10] in its games affected this list.
With The Sims Social and CityVille in second and third place, respectively, the list contains a number of unexpected winners. For instance, [DoubleDown Casino][11], Bingo Blitz and Slotomania all made the overall top 10 list. This isn't to say that these games aren't deserving of such acclaim, but none of these games performed as well as, say, Zynga Poker in 2011.
This leads us to believe that user recommendations were weighed more heavily than active players in Facebook's calculations. Who knows, perhaps recommendations are a better metric than simply the number of players when rating a game's popularity. Facebook made a point to include a bunch of other notable mentions from 2011, so check out the [full list right here][12].
**Do you think Gardens of Time deserves to be on top? What do you think of the conclusions Facebook came to? Sound off in the comments. [Add Comment.][13]**
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