Comments on: Insights from Facebook Mobile Usage

By: teemu

teemu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:22:02 +0000

App specific stats are available on Facebook. For example, you can see that Facebook for iPhone has over 28 million monthly active users straight from it's page. The number of overall mobile users is available from Facebook's stats page. Number has grown to over 100 million since writing this article, quite a phenomenal growth!

By: l432

l432 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:13:50 +0000

hey teemu,
where did you get these stats? thanks for the great graphic/info. really interesting.

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By: teemu

teemu — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:59:51 +0000

I did a quick test, seems that they don’t currently promote iPhone application on m.facebook.com, I don’t know if they did it at some point.

Apps that I’m talking in the post are promoted on http://www.facebook.com/mobile/.

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By: Jaakko Rajaniemi

Jaakko Rajaniemi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:04:26 +0000

Only thing I’ve seen promoted is when I’m on my Nokia N95 and on m.facebook.com, there is a suggestion to load a facebook bookmark to my N95. Is this different on iPhone for example?

By: teemu

teemu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:47:48 +0000

Jaakko, Facebook for iPhone is developed by Facebook.

Some of the other apps that are branded as ‘Facebook for X’ are actually developed by other parties. I’ve understood that this is true at least for Blackberry and Nokia versions, which are developed by RIM and Nokia in cooperation with Facebook.

I don’t see this as a major issue, though. I assume it is more of a practical choice, development talent for those platforms is not inside FB and it was win-win for both FB and device manufacturer to have a FB app. Facebook is promoting those apps on their mobile pages as part of their “official” offering.

There are also third-party mobile apps allowing varying levels of FB access. I haven’t investigated their popularity, if someone has knowledge about them, it would be great info to share.

By: Jaakko Rajaniemi

Jaakko Rajaniemi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:28:23 +0000

Is Facebook for iPhone developed by Facebook itself? What about other apps, e.g. Blackberry? Just thinking if that have any effect on the iPhone app popularity.