The biggest riser among Facebook pages this week is the application Snaptu. According to Snaptu's Facebook page, Snaptu provides "iPhone like applications to almost every mobile phone" including Facebook applications. Also in this week's charts, Facebook game CityVille remains popular and rapper Eminem climbs two places into fifth position.
The top rising pages on Facebook over the week ending Friday, February 18 according to Famecount.com* are:
| Fans today | Fans this week | |
1. | Snaptu | 91,506 | 866,967 |
2. | Rihanna | 83,793 | 830,156 |
3. | CityVille | 113,018 | 771,074 |
4. | Shakira | 72,136 | 766,677 |
5. | Eminem | 73,196 | 730,439 |
6. | Justin Bieber | 61,514 | 634,813 |
7. | Texas Hold'em Poker | 82,204 | 621,359 |
8. | Usher | 52,844 | 584,082 |
9. | Katy Perry | 46,565 | 578,385 |
10. | AKON | 56,605 | 555,176 |
* Data from famecount.com, the YouTube, Twitter and Facebook Statistics service.
Famecount measures the amounts of "likes," "fans" and "followers," providing statistics regarding the celebrity, brand, political and popular culture preferences of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter users.
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