Social Apps Pass Games for Top Spot on Mobile Devices - ReadWriteWeb

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[**Social Apps Pass **Games** for Top Spot on Mobile Devices**][3]
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In April, **games** held steady at 36%, but there was a huge jump for social networking, rising 12 percentage points to 37% overall. See the chart below: Where did this increase come from? The major social-networking services - Twitter, **Facebook**, Google+, **...**
[App Users Now Spend As Much Time Social Networking As Playing **Games**, Says **...**][4]mediabistro.com
[New Study Shows Boom in Mobile Social Networking Usage][5]Wall Street Journal (blog)
[Social Apps Gaining Popularity, Mobile **Games** Reaching Saturation][6]PC Magazine
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