Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook, just announced at our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable that Facebook’s iPhone/iPod app has reached 1 million users.
Facebook is currently ranked as the 6th most popular free application on Apple’s App Store, and has been among the store’s top applications since the store’s launch on July 10. We posted initial download numbers for the apps soon after the store’s launch (Facebook had around 9,000 downloads at the time). Since then, Apple has changed its policy and no longer posts the number of downloads for each app, so we need to rely on developers to report their figures.
We’ve asked MySpace for their corresponding numbers. Off hand, John Faith, GM and VP of Mobile for MySpace was able to tell us that their mobile WAP site sees 1.7 million uniques a day (users can access the MySpace WAP site without using the native application). This is certainly a large figure, but it doesn’t provide a direct comparison. We’ll update the post when we can get more comparable numbers.
At Facebook’s f8 conference this week, the company announced that it would soon be open sourcing its iPhone application, so we can expect to see a number of copy cats in the near future.
iPhone has the mobile market on a strangle hold.
Sure, but how many users does this app have?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOb9tXm5OQ4
1mil? *cough* bullshit *cough*
http://arstechnica.com/news.ar.....mbers.html
http://arstechnica.com/journal.....nal-iphone
So, what? 25% + install rate? Maybe in bizarro world.
The clear winner:
http://looptblog.com/
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Myspace app numbers wouldn’t be that high because Facebook is the suburbs and Myspace is the hood.
it will be a win-win situation for iphone and facebook. so good for their internet partership
This news definitely doesn’t surprise us and @Crash - haha so true.
tinkle…i mean twinkle and facebook are my 2 favorite social apps for the iphone.
this is only expected… everyone that has a Facebook account that owns an iPhone would use this app… it’s like saying there’s 1 million(example) visits to google.com using the iPhone, it’s just expected. http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Hey Jason,
Where did you get that facebook is open sourcing their iPhone application? As far as I know this was never announced. They simply announced that they will provide special Facebook Connect hooks for the iPhone.
Best,
Nick
1 million users and its the 6th most popular app? So this means 1-5 all have 1+ million users? Thats pretty crazy.
Thanks for the hard work TC… killer tech/entrepreneurship blog I found…. http://www.gothamtechminute.blogspot.com
YAWN!!!! Who cares. What a stupid post. Does Facebook pay you guys per post or is it just like one lump sum fee?
I read here earlier “the iPhone app was not official but you can download the version 2.0″ is that now official?
Can’t wait till “Delete your facebook account day”…
This app is just not working fir me, it updates messages, mail, etc once every two weeks.
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Wow man a million users. Holy Smokes dude that is crazy!
JT
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There’s no way myspace’s mobile internet site gets 1.7 million users a day. Mobile internet gateways obfuscate header information and change it per session. Meaning myspace mobile gets 1.7 million visits a day. But the same person could be visiting more than once.
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