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Analyst: Social Networking on the Rise in App Store

Posted 03/08/2013 at 4:20pm | by Matt Clark

iOS Social Networking Monetization within the social app category has grown exponentially in the last year, rising into the third-highest download category in the App Store. And all of those downloads mean potentially big money for social app developers, with revenue increasing by over 87 percent since 2012.

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