This Week’s Facebook Stats: Candy Crush Saga Gets What It Deserves

I spent an inconveniently substantial portion of last night trying to clear away gels in one level of King.com’s Candy Crush Saga. Knowing that an additional million people are experiencing the same frustration this week makes me feel better.

The King.com/Zynga competition is really starting to heat up, thanks in no small part to the former’s excellent mobile implementation of Candy Crush and Bubble Witch Saga. Zynga recently released a mobile version of its Bubble Witch clone, Bubble Safari, which is hopefully much better than its iOS version of Ruby Blast, which has done absolutely nothing to stem the loss of Facebook players.

Of course I am not here to pick sides. I remain completely impartial as King.com prepares to kick Zynga’s butt all over Facebook.

Top Facebook Fan Gainers — December 17,2012

Rank
Application
MAU
Change

1.
Candy Crush Saga King.com
22,200,000
+1,116,993

2.
CityVille 2
30,700,000
+974,920

3.
Pet Rescue Saga King.com
9,300,000
+652,786

4.
Megapolis Social Quantum
1,100,000
+516,461

5.
Dragon City Social Point
16,500,000
+322,363

6.
Top Eleven Be a Football Manager Nordeus
7,300,000
+265,568

7.
Subway Surfers Kiloo Games
5,200,000
+230,230

8.
Pool Live Tour Geewa
10,600,000
+222,440

9.
Ruzzle MAG Interactive
830,000
+148,272

10.
Bike Race
3,200,000
+135,434

Top Facebook Fan Losers — December 17, 2012

Rank
Application
MAU
Change

1.
Ruby Blast Adventures Zynga
10,800,000
-3,502,688

2.
FarmVille 2 Zynga Inc.
45,700,000
-1,241,651

3.
Bubble Safari Zynga
21,200,000
-1,136,467

4.
Zynga Slingo Zynga
14,900,000
-791,887

5.
The Ville Zynga
7,600,000
-739,525

6.
ChefVille Zynga
22,600,000
-655,122

7.
CityVille Zynga
11,400,000
-653,570

8.
FarmVille Zynga
16,500,000
-557,526

9.
SongPop Freshplanet
12,500,000
-431,850

10.
Hidden Chronicles Zynga
6,200,000
-423,933

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