There is so much Microsoft looks forward to when it comes to Facebook that the giant would do anything to have more stakes in the social network. It already has signed up Zynga to bring its game on MSN live and today rumors of it buying CrowdStar surfaced too. CrowdStar is one of the leading game developers for Facebook games and its most popular game is Happy Aquarium with more than 26 million active users per month.
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Boy it must have been a relief for the countless Facebook users in the last 24 hours as Happy Pets suffered an outage. The app has been growing exponentially crossing more than 11 million monthly users and giving ever more credibility to Crowd Star that also owns Happy Aquarium which is one of the ten most popular apps on Facebook. What exactly is so engaging about these games anyway?
Coming back to the app being down. It appears the burst in traffic itself has choked the application and rendered it inaccessible for users. This primarily comes after the app added more than 2 Million users in just a month but honestly speaking I would disagree on this reason. I mean the developers must have taken into consideration the fact that such apps would see a major rise in traffic month over month so I guess they did have some preparation for such a happening. I will keep my thoughts on the side and state that the primary reason was apparently due to some bug which ended up violating a privacy violation within the app leading to the ban.
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