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It’s hard to believe it’s now been a month since the Facebook Platform was announced to much hype and fanfare. Prophecies like “Facebook is the new Internet,” “Facebook is the web OS,” and so on have been espoused from entrepreneurs and journalists alike. At the same time, the venture community has remained skeptical of the value that will be realized for Facebook Platform developers.
We’ve gathered data from all the top apps on Facebook now that we’re one month into Platform, and one thing’s clear: Facebook applications have taken off like wildfire. In fact, to the tune of 65 million net application installs over the course of the past 30 days. That’s an average of 2.5 installed applications per every registered Facebook user. And I may even be missing some.
20 applications now sport over 1 million Facebook users. 35 more have over 100,000.
It’s clear that questions of application saturation are already here. With some users adding 10-15 applications to their profile, how much attention can application developers realistically expect to attract?
I’m looking forward to how month two of Platform shakes out. Will the early streak of Facebook app acquisitions continue? Which startups will unveil new apps? Will users continue to adopt new applications at this rate? Stay tuned 
| Rank | Facebook Application | Users |
| 1 | Top Friends | 7,030,746 |
| 2 | iLike | 4,045,129 |
| 3 | Fortune Cookie | 3,940,960 |
| 4 | Horoscopes | 3,740,614 |
| 5 | Graffiti | 3,738,513 |
| 6 | X Me | 3,441,475 |
| 7 | SuperPoke! | 3,079,407 |
| 8 | Free Gifts | 2,759,771 |
| 9 | Movies | 2,682,796 |
| 10 | Video | 2,643,710 |
| 11 | Mobile | 1,943,948 |
| 12 | Moods | 1,860,925 |
| 13 | Honesty Box | 1,769,460 |
| 14 | My Questions | 1,400,201 |
| 15 | Favorite Peeps! | 1,364,028 |
| 16 | Food Fight! | 1,242,812 |
| 17 | Slideshows | 1,177,410 |
| 18 | Causes | 1,172,609 |
| 19 | Quizzes | 1,102,933 |
| 20 | HOT or NOT | 1,100,466 |
| 21 | Trakzor | 787,070 |
| 22 | Poke Pro | 772,288 |
| 23 | Where I’ve Been | 767,969 |
| 24 | Super Wall | 723,046 |
| 25 | (fluff)Friends | 627,813 |
| 26 | Emote | 624,382 |
| 27 | Audio | 616,605 |
| 28 | Magic 8 ball | 412,495 |
| 29 | Famous Quotes | 411,196 |
| 30 | TravBuddy.com Countries Visited Map | 345,299 |
| 31 | iGift | 340,485 |
| 32 | Red Bull Roshambull | 285,203 |
| 33 | HotLists | 283,157 |
| 34 | Games | 281,830 |
| 35 | Matches | 281,488 |
| 36 | The Compass | 259,052 |
| 37 | I am Hungry | 238,116 |
| 38 | Compliments | 231,057 |
| 39 | Picnik | 202,785 |
| 40 | Pets | 202,032 |
| 41 | Socialmoth | 200,742 |
| 42 | Glitter Text | 191,682 |
| 43 | Tag! | 155,616 |
| 44 | Drink | 137,196 |
| 45 | Extended Info | 130,747 |
| 46 | Trips | 128,473 |
| 47 | Fast Friends | 123,351 |
| 48 | Election ‘08 | 121,884 |
| 49 | Cities I’ve Visited | 121,428 |
| 50 | Daily Bible Verse | 115,234 |
| 51 | Zombies | 113,914 |
| 52 | Knock Knock Jokes | 111,905 |
| 53 | The Win | 108,954 |
| 54 | Calendar | 104,337 |
| 55 | Slide Shows | 100,599 |
| 56 | Uber Music Player | 97,961 |
| 57 | Kudos! | 95,339 |
| 58 | Questions | 90,020 |
| 59 | Lamefactor | 86,550 |
| 60 | FunWall | 86,032 |
| 61 | PeopleRadar | 85,318 |
| 62 | YouTube Skins | 85,239 |
| 63 | Last.fm Music | 80,904 |
| 64 | Mood | 67,657 |
| 65 | Interview | 66,558 |
| 66 | iRead | 63,476 |
| 67 | 10 Second Interview | 62,114 |
| 68 | Football Fan | 61,372 |
| 69 | Dogbook | 61,185 |
| 70 | Uber Media Library | 55,510 |
| 71 | Awareness Ribbons | 49,989 |
| 72 | Family Guy Quotes | 49,681 |
| 73 | EF Globalprint | 44,163 |
| 74 | Dane Cook Quotes | 44,064 |
| 75 | Files | 43,809 |
| 76 | BioRhythms | 43,206 |
| 77 | Daily Horoscope | 42,731 |
| 78 | Astrology | 41,900 |
| 79 | Sticky Notes | 39,322 |
| 80 | Horoscopes | 39,078 |
| 81 | Developer | 38,296 |
| 82 | Countdowns | 37,987 |
| 83 | PopSugar 100 | 36,050 |
| 84 | Books | 33,162 |
| 85 | Snapvine | 32,158 |
| 86 | Boombox | 31,893 |
| 87 | Catbook | 31,427 |
| 88 | Jobster Facebook Profile Import | 31,423 |
| 89 | Simpsons Quotes | 31,004 |
| 90 | Love Football | 28,863 |
| 91 | Widgets | 28,061 |
| 92 | Love Horoscope | 27,730 |
| 93 | Locations | 26,829 |
| 94 | BrainFall.com Quiz Results | 26,310 |
| 95 | Graffiti | 24,824 |
| 96 | Hockey Fan | 24,515 |
| 97 | 24,235 | |
| 98 | TextMe | 23,891 |
| 99 | BandTracker | 23,769 |
| 100 | LOLcats | 23,083 |
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