If you’re interested in Facebook apps, you should check out this post by Asi Sharabi on No Man’s Blog. It’s a good analysis of the top 100 Facebook apps with some good insights into the different types of applications and the social needs they fulfill. The post is long, but well worth the time.

Right, let’s start with some figures at the top and bottom of the 100 most popular apps. Leading the table is Top Friends with 22,285,000 installs and 8% daily active users. Closing this table at the time I write this report #100 is Games with 1,015,500 installs, yet only 1% of them are daily active users.

Looking at these 100 most popular applications a very interesting picture revealed. There are overall 3 categories that these applications can be organised into:

Identity formation - 43%
Phatic Communication - 37%
Other - 20%

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