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Six secrets of Farmville’s success – and 86 million people agree

Farouk — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:39:19 +0000

Farmville may be the fastest growing Facebook game ever. It was only released in July and in August, over 86 million people played it. What’s the secret of its success?

Learn inside secrets for Farmville success at FarmvilleSecrets.com

Maybe it’s just because it’s summer, but we seem to have got farming on our brains. Look at the top 25 games on Facebook in August.

That’s four farming games in the top 25, with Farmville at #1 and Farmtown at #3. Farmville is only ten months old, but it had 86 million unique players in August.

Yes, you read that right. 86 million players.

According to ComScore (via TechCrunch), Facebook had 340 million unique visitors in June (although Facebook only acknowledges 250 millon), which means that around 10% of all Facebook users played Farmville last month.

That’s a phenomenal success. I argued in July that Zynga may have overtaken Yahoo! Games to be the largest games “site” on the Internet. With this latest performance, I think that there can be no doubt that Zynga has claimed that crown.

The six secrets of s

Farmville came out at around the same time as Playfish’s Country Story which, while doing well, has only achieved 4 million users, 16% of the size of Farmville’s playerbase. Farmville has got six key elements absolutely nailed, and it’s reaping the rewards of its clever, viral design. So what are they?

1. The joy (and shame) of gifting

Gifting was one of Facebook’s earliest memes. When Facebook first emerged, it was about “poking” your friends and giving them virtual beers or dogs.

Zynga has cleverly picked up on this. When you visit your farm, the first screen you see is not a picture of your farm, but a list of gifts that you can give your friends. In many games, this screen would say “invite your friends to play this game”, a thinly-veiled attempt to get you to spam your mates. Zynga turns this on your head by asking you to send them a gift.

Gifting is particularly clever because it evokes an ancient anthropological need that is common to almost all cultures: the need for reciprocity. If someone gives you a gift, you have to reciprocate. It might be writing a thank you card, or getting your round of beers in, or taking a bottle of wine to a dinner party. Across all cultures, there has to be an “exchange” of gifts.

So if someone sends me enough Farmville gifts (and the default message asks me to send a gift back, to press the point), I’ll feel honour-bound to give them one back.

Much better than spam.

2. Farmville gifts have value

The objective of Farmville is to build a thriving farm. You spend money to dig plots, plant crops, buy animals and plant orchards.

Trees and animals are expensive. They look pretty but it’s hard to justify the investment compared with growing strawberries. But look! Your friends are sending you all these expensive trees and valuable animals. Aren’t your friends thoughtful?

Unlike the original virtual beer or birthday cakes, gifts from my friends in Farmville enhance my enjoyment of the game. In fact, the more gifts I receive, the better my farm looks and the more fun I have. So it is in my interest to:

Invite as many of my friends into the game as possible, so they give me presents
Give them all presents as often as I can so that they give me a present back

That’s viral marketing at its most brilliant.

3. Farmville gifts cost me nothing

Here’s where Zynga departs from the real world: sending a gift costs me zilch. I can only send them sporadically (I think it’s once a day), but it costs me nothing more than the time it takes to select an avocado tree and the friends I want to send it to. My cash reserves stay the same, but I have just asked a dozen people to send me something worth real value. Aren’t Farmville gifts wonderful?

4. Farmville doesn’t really bother with levels

There are levels in Farmville: you can’t buy certain crops or a combine harvester until you reach a certain level. But the real limitation is cash. And you can get more cash by playing more often. (In contrast, Playfish’s Country Story, which I generally prefer, has pretty strict limitations by what level you are, and you don’t level up very fast). So the size of my farm is dependent more on how many friends I have who are sending me gifts and how often I play. This makes it very easy for me to keep coming back to Farmville.

5. Choosing what crops to plant matters

Strawberries grow very fast in Farmville-land. Only four hours in fact (whereas wheat takes three days). But there is a quid pro quo. Strawberries wither and rot quickly too. If I don’t get back in time to harvest them quickly, then all my work goes to waste. So as well as choosing crops based on their in-game value, I choose them based on when I next expect to play. I vary them, so that I have fast-growing and slow-growing crops, because that way there is something to do every time I visit my farm.

In other words, I control my own gameplay experience which makes me feel a sense of ownership of my farm, and means that I want to return to check on it often.

6. If you don’t return frequently, your crops wither and die

With Country Story, you have to visit frequently to water your crops. If you don’t, they “pause” their growth, and won’t start again until you water them.

Farmville is harsh. Fail to harvest their crops and they rot. Gone. Money down the drain.

So you have to visit regularly, just to make sure that the game doesn’t punish you.

The moral of the story

There are two things that matter to making your social game a success: getting users to return frequently (stickiness) and getting users to invite their friends (virality).

Farmville has achieved this, and has 86 million users to prove it.

Learn inside secrets for Farmville success at FarmvilleSecrets.com

Twitter’s 237 Most Influential Users Who Will Follow You Back

Farouk — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:43:03 +0000

Twitter is closing a round of funding that will value the company known for its 140-character, stream-of-consciousness blogs at $1 billion, technology news site TechCrunch reported on Wednesday 16th Sep.

Twitter and other social networking sites have been hard-pressed to show that they are viable businesses and that they have what it takes to eventually make a successful public offering or private sale.

On the users side, the 4,000,000 followers mark will be achieved in a few months by some accounts. With such authority within the Twitter community, many new or inactive Twitter users won’t believe that many top accounts will follow them back.

Actually, many highly influential users with hundreds of thousands (even millions) of followers will follow everyone back. Most of them are using automated tools to follow anyone who follows them. What’s really great with these people is that they will very likely follow you back, even if you’re new to Twitter.

300,000+ Followers

70,000-300,000 Followers

40,000-70,000 Followers

30,000-40,000 Followers

20,000-30,000 Followers

10,000-20,000 Followers

How to Use this List

Most of Twitter users would love accumulating active followers and the people on this list will greatly help you becoming more influential. Most on the 237 are active and interact with their followers daily. They tweet to their followers when they discover something interesting on the web and many of them have high-quality tweets.

This list will help newbies and experienced users grow their followers. Unfortunately, I did the list backwards. Anyone willing to grow his Twitter account must start from the last accounts up to the top, following all 236 users. The benefits of following all of them is two-fold:

What’s great with these users is that they have demonstrated a social involvement in Twitter by following-back those who follow them, which will very likely bring you many additional followers.

The side-benefit of following these users is that once it’s done , your username will be at the top of their followers list. Many people increase their Twitter followers by adding the followers of highly influential users like these, so being at the top increases your exposure and increases the odds that other users follow you.

Our blog is againest “Twitter Follower Spam” or no matter what you would like to call it , which is adding tons of followers, unfollowing them later, and adding more in a vicious cycle of growth, but hey, here we just suggested you to follow the most interesting users because it works, and many people do it. This is just a resource to help users with “Good Karma” at every level reach the right followers for their tweets.

High paying keywords : 500 best paying keywords to explode your revenue

Farouk — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:28:15 +0000

I found the top 500 High Paying Keywords on Adsense for 2010 ( it took me all the weekend to find them … ) :

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Gizmodo - Awesome Lego Mario Model Built Using NextEngine 3D Scanner

Farouk — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:58:51 +0000

This is awesome. A Lego and 3D fanatic took a small Mario figurine, scanned it into a computer using the NextEngine 3D Scanner and used the data to create a near-perfect replica in Lego bricks, just much larger. Click the small picture for a much bigger version, and go check out the source to see the step-by-step process including screenshots of the 3D model he created.
Awesome!

Top 237 Twitter Users Who Will Follow You Back

Farouk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:36:17 +0000

As Twitter hits its stride and emerges as a juggernaut in social media, the top users on the site are distancing themselves from the pack. The race to 1,000,000 followers will be achieved in a few months by some accounts. With such strong followings, many new or inactive Twitter users may not think that there are top accounts that will follow them back.

On the contrary, there are many. In fact, many users with tens of thousands of followers will follow just about everyone back. Some use tools to automatically follow anyone who follows them. Others actually go through and manually add their new followers. Regardless of the method, these 237 accounts will most likely follow you back, even if you’re a Twitter newbie.

100,000+ Followers

50,000-100,000 Followers

40,000-50,000 Followers

30,000-40,000 Followers

20,000-30,000 Followers

10,000-20,000 Followers

How to Use this List

Regardless of what stage you are in Twitter, if your goal is to accumulate active followers, the people on this list are good for that. Most on the list are active and interact with their followers on a daily basis. They retweet to their followers when they find something interesting on or off Twitter and many of them post high-quality tweets.

Some do not, and you’ll be able to identify the spammers and self-serving users from what appears in your stream. This list has not been validated for quality (maybe a future blog post) but rather to help new and experienced users grow their followers.

Unfortunately, I did the list backwards. Anyone who wants to grow their Twitter account should start from the bottom and work their way up, adding all 237 either all at once or spread out over time. The advantage of adding from this list is two-fold:

Obviously, as these users have demonstrated a willingness to follow those who follow them, it gives you a likely additional follower.

The side-benefit of adding from this list is that once you follow them, your account will, for a short period of time, be at the top of their followers list. Many users build their Twitter followers by adding the followers of users such as these, so being at the top increases your account’s exposure and the number of opportunities for other users to follow you.

This blog does not condone “Twitter Follower Spam” or whatever you would like to call the practice of adding a ton of followers, unfollowing them later, and adding more in a vicious cycle of growth, but hey, it works, and many people do it. This is just a resource to help users at every level build their accounts as quickly as they would like.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Rap

Farouk — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:43 +0000

Hi everybody

Here is a funny video of mario rap made by a fan . Enjoy =)

Super Mario Bros. theme has lyrics

Farouk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:22:52 +0000

More Nintendo trivia for you. Did you know the Super Mario Bros. theme has lyrics? Of course, the theme is apparently called “Go Go Mario” and is originally in Japanese but lucky for us the poster of the video above was kind enough to include both the Japanese and English lyrics.

The video clip was taken from the “Mario and Zelda Big Band live” concert that was held on September 14th, 2003 at the Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The clip was part of a mini-DVD that came with a UK Gamecube magazine.

Hit the jump for the English lyrics and for the real Mario lover’s out there, I want to see an audio or video clip of you singing the English version of the song.

Thanks James for the tip!

Today, full of energy, Mario is still running, running
Go save Princess Peach! Go!
Today, full of energy, Mario runs
Today, full of energy, jumping!
Today, full of energy, searching for coins
Today, keep going, Mario!

Get a mushroom - it’s Super Mario!
Get a flower - it’s Fire Mario!

Goomba! Troopa! Buzzy Beetle! Beat them all!
Mario is always full of energy and strong!

[Spoken] The only one who can reverse the spell that has captured the Mushroom People is Princess Peach. But Princess Peach is hidden underground, in a far-off castle. Ah, the days of peace… if we could once more return to those days… to save Princess Peach and bring peace back to the Mushroom Kingdom, that is why Mario is on his journey today.

Today, full of energy, Mario is still running, running
Go and beat the Koopa tribe, go!
Today, full of energy, Mario runs
Today, full of energy, jumping!
Today, full of energy, searching for coins
Today, keep going, Mario!

Get a star - become invincible!
Quickly, go save Princess Peach!

Lakitu! Blooper! Cheep Cheep! Beat them all!
Mario is always full of energy and strong!

Today, full of energy, Mario is still running, running
He’s made it to the castle and gets fireworks!
Lightly sidestepping the Hammer Bros.
Show the last of your power, Mario!
It’s been a long journey but it’s nearly at an end
You’ve done it, you’ve done it! You’ve defeated Bowser!

Princess Peach says “Thank you”
Mario’s got a great big heart!

Mario’s adventure is over for now, but
Mario’s dream lives forever…

Mario Theme on Bottles with an RC Car

Farouk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:15:29 +0000

This took six takes, someone kept throwing turtle shells.

Gizmodo - Awesome Lego Mario Model Built Using NextEngine 3D Scanner

Farouk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000

Awesome! (Click to zoom)

Amazing Mario fan work =)

Farouk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:27 +0000

I just found these 2 videos made by Mario fans and it looks pretty awesome =)

Here is the first one

and here is the second one