Blog Friends growth accelerates to 10% a day August 2, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : facebook, blogs and community, London, web2.0 , trackbackSomething seems to be working very well with Luke and Jof’s Blog Friends Facebook application, announced last month. The functionality has been increased to catch blogs from friends of friends, which makes the ‘discovery’ aspect a winner. ( Hint: I already my friends’ blogs anyway, unfiltered). There’s also an easy one click link to a blog post to be read from within Facebook. I hesitated about that for a second, but decided it’s a good thing - just like providing full posts in RSS feeds - as long as they don’t start enabling comments right there within Facebook, because then a blog on blog friends will have the potential to evolve as a split community - part inside Facebook and part outside on the internet. Maybe some people will figure out that’s OK, but I’ll be wary.
I’ve been tracking the membership growth with another Facebook app called “appsoholic” which today produced the graphs below. The previous time I noticed the growth was at 8% a day, which is very fast by most standards, but this has now increased to 10% a day which may indicate an accelerating rate of expansion. Well done!
That 10% puts blog friends in the top 40 of Facebook applications for daily growth rate, still according to appsaholic, whilst being ranked at 740 for size.
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Thanks Andy - they are great stats, and our internal (not published) data shows that people are using Blog Friends more and more!
August should be really interesting - what with the new features coming soon and the bloggers returning from holiday.
P.S. - I guess you saw we were “Scobleized” yesterday