Holiday Round-up: Top Apps

The holidays have always seen a burst of odd creativity on Facebook- see this Mashable list from 2007- I personally like the “drunk Santa” app. This year, photo-tagging was definitely big, but it was used last year, as well. The difference perhaps, is slightly more complex apps and reaching out more to the social graph. Seems like apps that jumped the 2M mark really took off. You also had to get in early- the leader, Best Christmas Friends, started optimizing back in November. I’d also add that with using the Graph API and complex photo generation apps - Flash, or other solutions- that with the added complexity comes latency. So getting the app created quickly really distinguished the popular ones from the non-popular ones.

I formed this list from the rankings on All Facebook blog, and from searching out some known winners (to me) on Facebook. This was gathered the week after New Year’s, roughly 1/7. I included Today Calendar as that had recent gains and I thought it was in line with the holidays.

1. My Year in Status - 16M, ranked #20 in top monthly apps on 1/6.
This is a Flash app, that builds a photo of your year in statuses, in paragraph form, with various templates to choose from.

2. Best Christmas Friends
Ranking 35 in the Facebook Leaderboard, with 12M mau (monthly average users) this Flash app that lets you select your friends as ornaments on 3 different styles of trees.
( recently the developer shifted this to a best-friend’s style bulletin board app, under the same name.)

3. My Status in Year 4.3M mau app | stat

4. My Year in Photos 3.4M mau app | stats
Creates a collage of your photos- from the last year. Another phototagging app.

- Other Holiday Apps:

Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad
2.6M overall

Online Gifts & Wishes - 1.5M

Blessed New Year to My Friends - 1.3M

For You, My Special Friend - 1.3M

Today Calendar - 1.3M mau

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