Earlier this year I began receiving a lot of inquiries about translating the site into other languages. I’ve been forced to put off the launch since I was busy working on other stuff but last week I finally got around to launching the French version of AllFacebook. Right now I am being helped by the team over at KRDS. This is more of an experiment than anything else but I’m pretty excited to expand internationally.
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If you haven’t checked out out Facebook application statistics over the past few weeks, you definitely should. Sorting the leaderboard by daily active users shows that 4 of the top 30 Facebook applications are now French applications. “Que Pensent mes Amis de moi?” or “What do my friends think of me?” now ranks as the sixth most visited application based on daily active users.

For some reason our system only picked up on this application five days ago but it is clearly popular. Another French application which is extremely popular is “Qui a la plus grosse …?” or “Who has the larger …?” You can only guess what type of controversy has been created among friends with that application. Interestingly, these applications are reminiscent of applications that were successful early on for the Facebook platform.
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