Facebook reveals new growth stats; 20 percent of web users play games every day + MORE

Looking to increase commenting, social sharing, and other user engagement on your site? According to a Gigya study of billions of user actions with partners like Pepsi, Nike, and Dell, adding gamification to your site boosts engagement by almost a third.
In fact, gamification boosts commenting 13 percent, social sharing to Facebook, Twitter, and networks 22 percent, and content discovery by a massive 68 percent…

The Portland-based Vizify came out of TechStars’ accelerator in 2011 with the goal of helping everyday people turn their personal data — the stuff that’s fragmented across scores of profiles, networks and websites — into one, unified visual profile. Essentially, piggybacking on the rise of digital portfolio platforms that aim to recast how we use the resume, Vizify wants to help change how we build our identities online…

On today’s social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog talked about two handy tools that have come out in the past week: Visual.ly’s tool for making an infographic about your Google Analytics data and Amazon’s quick and easy button for sending an article to a Kindle device to read later…

Tumblr has reached a big milestone: More than 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts have been created using the platform
The milestone, noticed by the folks from The Next Web, comes after a very successful 2012, in which Tumblr became on of the top 10 most visited sites in the world
In March 2013, the company announced it plans to introduce mobile ads on the iOS and Android platforms in the first half of the year, as it eyes its first annual profit
Tumblr has been founded in 2007 by David Karp…

Launched last fall, Facebook Exchange (FBX) is a way for businesses to show ads to people on the social network based on their online browsing interests. Today, the company launched a small alpha test that introduced FBX-targeted ads in News Feed.
This is a significant change to Facebook’s advertising product…

Facebook rolled out new threaded replies to pages yesterday.
This allows page admins to reply to individual comments from fans on a post and create threaded conversations.
Additionally, they’ll be pushing out active-thread sifting – a feature that orders the most active conversations on a post to the top of the post…

Facebook has launched a small test to introduce Facebook Exchange Ads in its News Feed on desktop, according to the Facebook Studio blog.
The company is working with a small group of demand side platforms (DSPs) including TellApart, MediaMath and Nanigans. It has also said it will begin making the ads available for more DSPs and advertisers in the coming weeks…

Though they’re still not offering LolCat or Esperanto to its available options, Twitter has added some additional languages to its archive selection.
And curiously, they’ve added the same number of languages this time around. Does someone at Twitter have a number fetish?
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This is a crosspost from sister site InsideSocialGames.
Today at the Game Developers Conference, Facebook revealed new statistics, features and a Game Center for developers.
According to Facebook, more than 250 million people are playing games on the social network every month. The company is continuing to showcase itself as a huge asset for mobile developers, too, pointing out that (as of February) 55 percent of the top 400 iOS apps are integrated with Facebook…

King.com, the maker of the popular ‘Candy Crush Saga’ Facebook game, is celebrating tonight — and for multiple reasons. It was 10 years ago when the company was founded and on Tuesday, it launched two brand new games, Papa Pear Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. In addition, the company announced that it will be dropping the “…