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Yahoo, Metacafe, birthdays, games, Spoitfy, BranchOut, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Web integrations, music apps, games, horoscopes and a few other applications made our list of the fastest growing apps by daily active users this week. The titles below grew between 200,000 and 1.9 million DAU, based on  AppData , our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook. Top Gainers This Week Name DAU Gain Gain,% 1.    Yahoo! 7,200,000 +1,900,000 + 36% 2

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News, tabs, video, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

A news Timeline application, Younews, topped our list of emerging Facebook apps this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew from between 120,000 and 580,000 MAU, based on  AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

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Facebook ad reporting change aims to help advertisers optimize campaigns for actions beyond Likes

Advertisers will soon be able to measure a wider range of actions that consumers take after seeing an ad on Facebook, including comments, shares, app use and Credits spent, according to a spokesperson from the social network. Previously, it had been difficult for marketers to understand what sort of effect their ads had beyond building a fan base since Facebook did not provide information about what users did after they clicked on an ad

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Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile

Facebook has acquired the team and most of the assets of Tagtile, a mobile-based customer loyalty management startup, according to a post on Tagtile’s website. Facebook started and ended this week with mobile-focused acquisitions, having bought photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion on Monday.

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Facebook tests new way to let users know which links come from social readers and whether their activity will be shared

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature to make users aware of their social reader privacy settings before they click on links that could end up being shared on their profiles. Articles from social readers like the Huffington Post, Digg, ESPN, Yahoo News and others now include an icon to designate whether users’ friends will be able to see that they read the article.

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Santorum loses fans; competition heats up between Obama and Romney this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker

With Rick Santorum dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race on Tuesday, his Facebook page has begun to lose Likes, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker . Mitt Romney’s page experienced a large surge following Santorum’s announcement, as Romney has essentially clinched the nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency. Newt Gingrich , who has not yet ended his bid despite trailing in the polls, has been losing fans for the past few weeks.

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Breaking: Facebook acquires Instagram for $1B

Facebook acquired mobile photo sharing application Instagram and its team for about $1 billion in cash and Facebook stock, according to a press release . The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close later this quarter. The acquisition is likely to drive Facebook’s valuation even higher when the company goes public, as it is expected to later this spring. Instagram was last valued at $500 million when it raised $40 million  in March

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Friends, Digg, Gogobot, Hey Tell, tabs, games, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Friend and calendar applications, as well as games, and Timeline apps comprised our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The apps grew from between 170,000 and 370,000 MAU, based on  AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week.

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Marvel, Zynga, cards, Viddy, Metacafe, more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Games continued to dominate our list of growing Facebook applications this week, this time on our list of emerging apps by monthly active users.

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Marvel, Zynga, cards, Viddy, Metacafe, more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Games continued to dominate our list of growing Facebook applications this week, this time on our list of emerging apps by monthly active users. The apps grew from between 80,000 and 560,000 MAU, based on  AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

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