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Keep An Eye On This App That's Growing Like Bonkers

Matt Lynley

Song Pop is Mark Zuckerberg's new favorite application.

It's a "name your tune" game that's short, sweet and quite addictive — kind of like Draw Something was when it launched.

The company behind Draw Something, OMGPOP, was then bought by Zynga for more than $200 million.

Song Pop is also growing extremely quickly. It picked up nearly a million new daily players just this week, according to AppData.

Keep an eye on this one.

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source: www.businessinsider.com

29 Jun 2012

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