Farmville Now More Popular Than Twitter
With the incredible growth of Farmville over the last few months, I have been curious to see at which point it would overtake Twitter in terms of popularity. According to Facebook, Farmville is now bigger than Twitter. Let that sink in for a minute, more people play Farmville than use Twitter. Twitter has been around for a couple years now and Farmville has only been around for 4 or 5 months, maybe less. To become bigger than one of the biggest internet phenomenons in only a few months is an unreal achievement. According to the latest numbers from Appdata, Farmville is going to hit over 70 million players in a matter of days.
Also of note, Facebook itself now has over 350 million users worldwide. That is more people using Facebook than there are citizens in the USA. Again, these numbers are just plain staggering. As always, I can’t help but be incredibly impressed at both the Facebook platform for games and Zynga’s ability to execute so well. I can only imagine how big Farmville will get with Farmville.com now open.