Facebook users now have another way to obtain virtual currency, compliments of application-discovery service and mobile ad network Tapjoy and pay-per-call marketer RingRevenue, but there’s a catch: You must pick up the phone and call advertisers.

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Facebook users in Singapore don’t really understand how to use virtual currency to buy premium items in social games, but seem willing to experiment after learning more about the concept.

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Facebook announced today an expansion to their Facebook Credits program, including a disclosure of the revenue share they’ll be taking. According to Deborah Liu’s post on the Facebook Developer blog, Facebook Credits supports purchase via fifteen currencies, several credit cards, mobile payments, and recently PayPal, and that they’ll be rolling out the program to more developers over time.
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In Facebook Credits – Part 1, we looked at the history of Facebook Credits and the varying degrees of the many phases of the rollout.  Now available in at least 14 applications, Facebook Credits is moving from a small number of test applications to widespread implementation. So what applications are Credits now available in and what’s in the immediate future for Facebook Credits? We will answer those questions in more in the second part of our two part series on Facebook Credits.
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There has been speculation for well over a year now about Facebook’s “soon to launch” virtual currency, but up until now, no services had been rolled out. As of last night, Facebook began testing the ability to let users send credits to each via comments according to Venturebeat’s Eric Eldon. Facebook has previously reached out to developers via the developer forum for testing out a virtual currency system but since then very little has been mentioned.
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