facebook gaming update: Words With Friends Is Facebook’s Fastest Growing App

Words With Friends narrowly slides into the top spot in the first 2012 ranking of Facebook's fastest growing applications.

# Facebook's Fastest Growing Apps

Name Daily Active Users Monthly Active Users Weekly Growth

1. **Words With Friends**
7,300,000
15,700,000
1,900,000

2. **Static Iframe Tab**
1,500,000
24,400,000
1,700,000

3. **Causes**
300,000
5,300,000
1,600,000

4. **Yahoo**
830,000
10,200,000
1,500,000

5. **Family Tree**
370,000
4,800,000
1,400,000

6. **Tetris Battle**
3,100,000
10,400,000
1,200,000

7. **Iwipa Website: HTML + iframe + FBML**
550,000
11,300,000
1,100,000

8. **JibJab**
120,000
4,700,000
1,000,000

9. **Spotify**
5,200,000
12,100,000
1,000,000

10. **FarmVille**
7,500,000
34,000,000
900,000

11. **Birthday Cards**
150,000
1,800,000
800,000

12. **Static HTML… [Third Tab]**
110,000
2,800,000
800,000

13. **Pinterest**
950,000
5,200,000
700,000

14. **schoolFeed**
1,200,000
3,700,000
700,000

15. **Instagram**
390,000
3,200,000
600,000

16. **MyCalendar - Birthdays**
1,600,000
41,800,000
600,000

17. **Tarjetitas**
120,000
1,900,000
600,000

18. **Today Calendar**
90,000
590,000
510,000

19. **Are YOU Interested?**
810,000
7,500,000
500,000

20. **BandRx**
330,000
6,500,000
500,000

# Games

![][1]Zynga begins the year as Facebook's leading developer for the first seven days. With a 14 percent growth rate, [Words With Friends][2] lands in the top spo,t gaining 1.9 million players. A little ways down in the middle of the countdown, [FarmVille][3] ends with a 900,000 increase.

Found ahead in sixth, [Tetris Battle][4] grows by 1.2 million gamers.

# Page Tools

[Static Iframe Tab][5] ends the week in second, tallying a tabs built and view total of 1.7 million. Returning to the countdown in seventh, [Iwipa][6] earns a 1.1 million growth statistic. [Static HTML… [Third Tab]][7] collects a 800,000 increase, a 12th place return.

A popular tool for musicians takes the final position on the countdown; [BandRx][8]'s 500,000 total secures it a position as a fastest growing app.

# Community

![][9]Feeding homeless youth, a Dallas Cowboy holiday wish, and text while driving are just a few of the topics gaining popularity on [Causes][10]. The pledging application finishes strong in third amassing a 1,600,000 weekly growth total.

For a more personal sense of community, [Family Tree][11] connects relatives that may or may not be found on the social network; 1.4 million more Facebook users are now on the app. The next collegiate semester merely weeks away, [SchoolFeed][12] returns in 14th connecting 700,000 classmates.

# Plug-Ins

[Yahoo][13] got 1.5 million new users synchronizing with Facebook, for a fourth place finish. [Spotify][14] got an additional million users, to rank ninth. A social network in its own right, [Pinterest][15] is13th with a weekly growth total of 700,000. [Instagram][16] ranks in the 15th position after 600,000 additions.

# Gifts

![][17]
Holidays are wrapping up, but [JibJab][18] remains strong in eighth as 1 million users search for just-right eCards. Developer RockYou gives social networkers pages of gifts to choose from in celebration of those special days using [Birthday Cards][19]; a 800,000 growth figure is good enough for 11th place.

OndaPix [Tarjetitas][20] is a Spanish competitor within the trend, and 600,000 new gift givers place the newcomer in the 17th spot.

# Calendars

[MyCalendar – Birthdays][21] enjoys 600,000 additions, for a 16th place week. New to the list with a 510,000 increase [Today Calendar][22] comes in 18th.

# Dating

![][23]Some 500,000 people added [Are You Interested][24] this week, putting the dating application in 19th place.

Readers, did you find yourself hooked on any of the week's fastest growing apps?

[![][25]][26]
[![][27]][28]

[![][29]][30] [![][31]][32] [![][33]][34]

![][35]

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allfacebook/~3/DET8BkKHP24/facebook-fastest-growing-2-2012-01

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Words With Friends Is Facebook’s Fastest Growing App

No comments:

Post a Comment