Farmville: the fastest growing Facebook app

First of all, I would like you to give your best shot and guess by yourself the best application on facebook that is the application with the highest number of users. Well if your answer is FarmVille, congratulations you came to the right conclusion. FarmVille the current fastest growing app registered an impressive growth of almost around 3 million MAU (monthly active users). This tremendous growth shows an impressive 43 percent growth in its monthly users.

This interesting statistics were brought to knowledge by AppData. As they believe, the top gainers for this week in 1 million to 10 million monthly active users class happen to be a combination of various music, gaming, quiz and events-related application

Coming to the top ranked app FarmVille. It is developed by Zynga. Using this app, the users have the chance to grow their own farms just by planting seeds and trees. Moreover of the users desire, they can purchase animals, buildings, decorations and even visit their friend’s farms. As they move along users earn coins and unlock special items such as the pumpkin seeds and others. If the users want to earn more coins, they can do so by purchasing more coins using their credit card, PayPal and so on.

Currently Zynga is busy on the rather serious sending and recieving end of IP-related lawsuits. If you think FarmVille is an original idea, then think again. Even then it has showcased a fantastic success story when it comes to gathering attention and interests of the users and the growth of its user base. Well here is another pleasant fact, it has been less than a month and already has around 10 million MAU.

In the top five spot, besides FarmVillem the other apps are:

• Food Fling ( an app for virtual fight in the pursuit of food
• Quizzer ( Creates a quiz and a directory)
• FARKLE (Dice game)
• What Type of Girl are you (Go and find out the details of it by yourself)

These stats do suggest one thing, the current hot apps on the facebook are the ones that belong to the social gaming and quiz category.