Here’s the list:

	Name	MAU	Gain	Gain,%
1.	City of Wonder	8,258,944	+3,090,907	+60%
2.	Phrases	32,855,392	+3,019,064	+10%
3.	Quiz Planet	9,568,840	+1,276,988	+15%
4.	The Price Is Right Game	1,820,953	+1,042,013	+134%
5.	Texas HoldEm Poker	33,892,121	+773,118	+2%
6.	MMA Pro Fighter	2,530,656	+673,668	+36%
7.	Are YOU Interested?	7,919,490	+639,410	+9%
8.	Millionaire City	7,103,233	+598,341	+9%
9.	Nightclub City	8,508,084	+549,207	+7%
10.	Ikariam – The free browser game	665,457	+520,049	+358%
11.	Give Hearts	8,483,268	+500,687	+6%
12.	Kingdoms of Camelot	6,177,127	+494,491	+9%
13.	Celebrity Birthdays	434,629	+434,517	+387,962%
14.	Games	6,934,563	+433,118	+7%
15.	Zoosk	6,281,530	+431,608	+7%
16.	Critter Island	542,369	+408,910	+306%
17.	Kad Raya	595,718	+408,645	+218%
18.	BandPage by RootMusic	3,752,898	+407,115	+12%
19.	Gift Creator	3,120,496	+393,009	+14%
20.	My Top Fans	4,916,952	+373,993	+8%

Playdom has some distance to go before City of Wonder tops the highest point achieved previous hit city building game, Social City, but it’s now within four million MAU of that point — so it’s also not too far, considering the three million MAU gain over the past week.

At number two, Phrases has caught on with international users, allowing it to become truly huge. Although the stated purpose of the app is user-generated collections of quotes, much of its actual growth appears driven by short quizzes.

At number three, Are YOU Interested? continues its steady march toward dating domination. It’s not alone this week, though; Zoosk is on its way up again, having just moved past six million MAU.

The non-game apps on this week’s list are rounded out by Give Hearts, which is now Facebook’s largest gifting app, and Celebrity Birthdays, which tells users which celebrities they share birth dates with.

An entry into BBC Radio 4′s “So You Want to Be a Scientist?” competition has unearthed some statistic gems on what our Facebook profile pictures say about us.

The UK radio station announced Nina Jones, 17, from Buckinghamshire was one of the four finalists in the competition, from 1,300 entries.

In conjunction with the Internet Institute at Oxford University, Nina built up a Facebook fan page audience of over 3,500 to crowd source the research.

With some great feedback, and more specific questions, Dr Hogan, Nina’s mentor from Oxford University describes how an interesting picture started to take shape from the behaviour exhibited.

“Facebook is becoming one of the de facto ways that we present ourselves to friends and family.  This photo has become the new calling card, the first point of contact, so (it) is important for understanding what it is we want to show off to each other online”

One of the most stand out points from the fan page respondents, was that men were 50% more likely to retouch their Facebook profile pictures.   Other snippets include:

• 1% showed themselves smoking, while 5% chose a picture of them drinking.
• Users under 30 were twice as likely to have a picture showing them at a party.
• Users over 30 more likely to have their child’s photo on their profile.
• Photos of couples raised chances of them smiling by 35%.
• Women 20% less likely to smiling on them.

If Nina were to win the competition, she would be given the opportunity to turn it into a larger scale research project according to the BBC.

If you’re in the UK, you’ll be able to listen to Nina and Dr Hogan talk more extensively about the research at 9:00pm tonight (13 September).

Original title and link for this post: Men 50% more likely to retouch Facebook profile pictures

While we’re not sure what Facebook is using the new feedback mechanism for (aside from testing new ways to determine what to display), it’s definitely an interesting addition. Have you seen this show up in your sidebar?

Thanks to Kien Lee of Senatus for the tip!

Monday, September 6th, 2010

• Steady Progress From Smaller Developers on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
• WonderHill’s Tattoo City Brings Skin Art to Store Management Gaming on Facebook
• New York Jets & Arkadium Launch Facebook Game

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

• Interview: Wooga’s New Studio Lead, Henric Suuronen
• Fusion Creative Studios Tries Storytelling on Facebook
• A Look at The Battle for Wesnoth HD for iPad
• Optimizing Social Game Payments for the Developing World

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

• GWallet Moves Into Mobile App Offers
• Playdom’s New Game Breaks a Million DAU on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games
• Zynga Switching to Exclusively Use Credits in Its Facebook Games
• The Price Is Right Grows Rapidly on Facebook

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

• Nordeus Grows Steadily with Slow Burn Soccer Manager on Facebook
• Facebook Game Cross-Promotion Network Applifier Grows to 55 Million Players, Fully Opens
• New Hires in Social Gaming: Bebo, Booyah, Crowdstar, & More
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: Playfish, Glu Mobile, Stumptown, & More
• Trademarks for Social Games: a Recipe for Success

Friday, September 10th, 2010

• BayView Labs Recreates Past Facebook Genres on the iPhone
• Critter Island Visits This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
• Zynga’s Platinum Purchase Program Does Exist, Used Mostly for Internationals
• Social Gaming Roundup: 3ME, Russia, Buyouts, & More

Also of interest is the ability to browse pages by country, although it’s not quite clear how these pages are being selected. For the most part, when I switched countries, many of the same Pages were displayed. While it’s definitely an interesting product, we currently have no idea how this will integrate. If you want to find new Pages though, head on over to the Facebook pages browser.

Thanks to Dan Peguine for the tip!