{"id":49003,"date":"2012-05-02T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49003"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T08:17:02","slug":"facebook-integration-boosts-app-users-by-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49003-facebook-integration-boosts-app-users-by-millions.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook integration boosts app users by millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> has revealed that it directed over 160 million users to mobile applications in April, up from 60 million users in late February.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant also reported that seven of the top ten grossing <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> iOS apps, and six of <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android\u2019s<\/a> top 10, sported Facebook integration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As mentioned in previous highlights, features like &#8216;Single Sign On&#8217; and &#8216;Open Graph&#8217; increase [installations], usage, and re-engagement for mobile apps, regardless of whether they are built for iOS, Android or the mobile web,&#8221; mobile product marketing manager, <a title=\"Jonathan Matus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/427501-Jonathan-Matus\">Jonathan Matus<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also highlighted how it has assisted growth of new mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p>Social network, <a title=\"BranchOut\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/427521-BranchOut\">BranchOut<\/a> has grown from 1 million active users to over 12 million in three months since the application integrated with Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, iOS app, <a title=\"Viddy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/427527-Viddy\">Viddy<\/a> has seen its community grow to more than 16 million registered users since it implemented Facebook integration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57425665-93\/facebook-sent-160m-visitors-to-mobile-apps-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is sending a record number of users to mobile applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,11257,161,11255,10984],"class_list":["post-49003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-branchout","tag-facebook","tag-jonathan-matus","tag-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49009,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49003\/revisions\/49009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}