Revealed: The big numbers behind Facebook

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Facebook Has Been Massively Underreporting Twitter App Users — By Over 6 Million

Inside Network’s AppData is a goldmine of information about third-party applications on Facebook. With it, you can see stats like: FarmVille has 63.9 million monthly active users — making it nearly three times as large as the number two app on Facebook, Texas HoldEm Poker (also a Zynga game), which has 28.5 million monthly active users. But there was always something a little wonky about certain areas of AppData’s data. For example, they showed that Facebook for Android only had 67 monthly active users — yes, 67. But something happened this past week that seemed to correct the data, and it exposed one new massive Facebook app: Twitter.

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Social Games Publisher Playdom Nabs $33 Million

Mountain View, Calif. - Social games
publisher Playdom announced on Tuesday that it has raised $33 million in new
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iOS 4 for iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G now available

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Wikinvest Already Tracking $1 Billion In Portfolio Assets

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California considering electronic car license plates

The California Legislature is looking at the possibility of trialling electronic car license plates in the sunshine state.

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Updated Rdio iPhone App Makes Its Way To The App Store

It took Apple’s review team close to a month, but the update to the Rdio iPhone application is now finally available from the App Store (iTunes link).

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Guide: How to hack your router

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Facebook For iPhone Updated: No iOS 4 Support, No iPad Support, Broken UI

There was a time when Facebook was at the forefront of mobile app development. Before there was even an App Store, the web app Facebook put out that was optimized for the iPhone was brilliant. Then the App Store came and with it was a great Facebook native app. Then came version 3 of the app, which was even better. Those days, sadly, are long over.

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Catch up: this week’s most popular posts

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