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Stats on your Facebook (not a scam...seriously)

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Also, it would be much better if this led to a blog post describing the application. Stats on fb. Right. What kind of stats? Stats regarding what?

For the record, the first screen after the "allow" one is an advertisement. The application is supposed to show a graph with the number of your friends against the average number of friends the fb population has (it didn't work for me) and a pie chart with the gender of my friends. There is a menu bar, a rather easy-to-spot DONATE button and advertisements every time you navigate from a menu item to another. Yeah, definitely not a scam. :D

First time I wish I could downvote.

You did pickup on a known bug, if the worker processes are very busy they can takes around 30 seconds to display your stats the first time. If you re-visit the app your stats should be there.

Sorry for that. Also please see the blog post we created yesterday, didnt think to post that here. That is a good suggestion. http://bitchasscode.com/?p=111

Upvoted your submission just because you show you care. :)

How do you get the global data for the averages?

Thanks :-)

The averages are calculated based on the users of the app, so the average is actually the "Average of other people who use the app". The first time i ran this app, the average sat at around 400 while the min was around 30 and max well over 2k.

I actually have a basic URL i've setup which shows the performance stats of how the app is running, its an interesting watch.

http://mouseofdoom.com/wimf_v3/admin.php?graph=engagement...

If you hit the URL for the old version of this app ( http://mouseofdoom.com/wimf_v3/admin.php?graph=engagement... ) you can see that the number of new subscribers sits at around 10% of the current base.

Fun times :-) Thanks again!

I saw "Post to my wall", and closed the tab. Why is this necessary? And why do you want my email address?

Email address is used to send you a daily report of changes (if there are changes) they're not stored or used for any other means.

Post to your wall is how the app spreads, but you can disable that if you do not like it :-) There is an option in settings once in the app.

obviously a scam when you say its not.

lol...i wrote it, its not a scam its just an app. Few $ here and there from adsense and thats all i get out of it :-)

Post to your wall is optional (as is sending you an email), it can be disabled in the settings.

oh also...

http://bitchasscode.com/?p=111

there is a blog post, but i didnt show it in the origional post. Sorry!

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