Thursday, August 14, 2008

Facebook Adopts New Metric for Widgets

Facebook took a step toward standardizing the wild world of Web metrics by switching its engagement rating for applications from reporting daily usage to measuring monthly active users.

The social networking site disclosed the change last week via a company blog aimed at an audience of developers. The goal is to help developers focus on "longer-term engagement" and show them "the number of users who visit [their] application over a longer time frame than just one day," according to Facebook.

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