CityVille 2, Subway Surfers, Stormfall, Snapchat, Twitter and more on this week’s top 20 Facebook apps growing by MAU

CityVille 2 again takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week with 72 percent gain.

Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 240,000 and 9.6 million MAU, based on our AppData tracking service.

Top Gainers This Week

Games dominated our list this week, along with a few apps that are regular top gainers, such as No. 2 TripAdvisor™, No. 6 Instagram and No. 9 Are You Interested?.

No. 14 Snapchat is a notable addition this week. The mobile app allows users to take photos and share them with friends for a limited amount of time, usually just a few seconds. Users are notified when their friends view their photos or if they try to save the image by taking a screenshot. It’s a unique type of chat app that has taken off among some groups of friends. Since releasing an Android version of the app at the end of October, growth has taken off. Last week Snapchat passed 1 million Facebook-connected users, though it’s likely the app has a large percentage of users that do not connect with their social network account.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Thursday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.

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Mobile apps, listening to music, Warcraft, gummies, Subway, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages

Facebook’s feature phone applications once again topped our list of pages with the most new Likes this week.

The top 20 fastest growing Pages this week gained between 315,271 and more than 2.8 million Likes. We compile this list with our PageData tool, which tracks page growth across Facebook.

Facebook for Every Phone, which recently became the most popular page on the social network, continues to see immense viral growth. Snaptu, which was the company that developed Facebook for Every Phone and ultimately was acquired by Facebook, seemed to grow from page consolidation, since its People Talking About This number doesn’t correspond with all the new Likes it received. Same for Warcraft, gummy candy Fraises Tagada – Haribo and soccer player Bojan Krkic.

The community page for Listening to music picked up more than 1.3 million new Likes, probably from Facebook’s recommended pages module. which has been suggesting some generic pages lately.

Subway made a new appearance on our list, as the result of a Facebook campaign, which includes homepage ads and logout ads. The sandwich chain is promoting avocado season with posts and videos including Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Walmart has an ongoing Sponsored Stories campaign running that has kept the page on our list for a while.

Japanese page ?????! 99% ?? made its debut this week, possibly with a Facebook ad campaign since the page had been growing very modestly and even losing fans in past weeks. The page seems to be promoting different fortune-telling apps. The other celebrity and entertainment pages are regulars on our list because their massive fan bases lead to additional viral growth.

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Bruno Mars, Subway, Turkey, Disney, Vin Diesel and Converse on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages

Facebook’s top Pages continued to be dominated mostly by musicians, but food, celebrity, Turkish apps and various media companies made an appearance this week, too. Musicians like Rihanna and Lady Gaga are regulars on the list, but musician Bruno Mars made an appearance this week, as did Aerosmith. Food was on the list, too, with Subway and Pringles, in addition to several media companies like Disney and the Converse shoe company. The Pages on our list grew from between 535,700 and 2.6 million Likes, we measure the growth of Pages with our PageData tool.

Top Gainers This Week

Bruno Mars topped the list with 2.6 million new Likes to his 7.7 million total; the landing tab for his Page features tour and music video information and the Wall contains news of recent awards and charity work. Rihanna, with 774,600 new Likes to add to her 33.5 million, also won some awards. Lady Gaga drew 722,500 new Likes to her 34.8 million this week with the launch of her new album.

Shakira’s 690,200 Likes pushed her Page’s total to 29.8 million, she’s been posting videos to her Wall. Eminem’s Page features music videos on the landing tab, drawing 670,100 Likes to his 36.6 million total. Bob Marley’s Page grew by 627,600 Likes to pass 25 million by featuring music, story and video posts. Finally, Aerosmith’s Page grew by 567,800 Likes to reach 3.5 million; the Page also promoted a recent appearance on the TV show “The Simpsons.”

Food featured this week included Subway with 2.2 million Likes to grow the Page to 6.6 million, partly due to a Commit to Fit sweepstakes featuring up to $25,000 in prizes. Also, Pringles with 535,700 Likes grew the Page to 13.8 million, featured a Share Your Way Sweepstakes with 181 prizes.

Two Turkish Pages were as usual big on the list this week. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk grew to 846,800 Likes this week; he was the first president of Turkey and a prominent historical figure. Secondly, another Turkish flag Page, Amerikan Bayraginin 1 Milyon Hayrani Varsa Türk Bayraginin 70 Milyonu Geçer, grew this week to 828,800 Likes.

There were media properties on the list. Disney with 721,200 Likes to grew to just about 23.7 million by posting photos and animated film stills. Facebook with 708,500 Likes to pass 41.4 million. YouTube with 601,900 Likes to almost make it to 34 million. Then, “Harry Potter,” which added 618,600 Likes to almost make 24 million by promoting the final installment of the series.

Celebrities made an appearance, too. Will Smith with 629,500 Likes to his 18.5 million updated with a visit to Oprah. Vin Diesel with 617,000 Likes to grow the Page to 24.1 million added a landing tab that asks users to invite friends to his Page. Finally, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Page grew by 537,900 Likes to its 26.3 million with updates about his professional matches. The remaining Pages, Converse with 551,500 Likes and a 16.9 million total and Nh?t ký (Diary in Vietnamese) added 548,800 Likes this week.

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