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07-11-2016, 05:52 PM
Pokémon Go on Android: Already bigger than Tinder, may soon be as big as Twitter
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Five days after the launch, Pokémon Go — an augmented reality game in which you hunt virtual Pokémon on your phone in real-life locations — is huge.
It's so big, actually, that it's already catching up with some of the largest social networks out there, at least on Android. According to mobile app analytics company SimilarWeb, the game had been installed on an e**rmous 5.16% of all Android devices in the U.S. by July 8.*
SEE ALSO: How to be the best, least an**ying, 'Pokémon Go' trainer (http://mashable.com/2016/07/08/how-to-play-pokemon-go/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial)
To put things into perspective, SimilarWeb compared the numbers with several top Android apps out there. As of July 8, Pokémon Go was installed on twice as many Android devices in the U.S. as dating app Tinder. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-big-tinder-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Five days after the launch, Pokémon Go — an augmented reality game in which you hunt virtual Pokémon on your phone in real-life locations — is huge.
It's so big, actually, that it's already catching up with some of the largest social networks out there, at least on Android. According to mobile app analytics company SimilarWeb, the game had been installed on an e**rmous 5.16% of all Android devices in the U.S. by July 8.*
SEE ALSO: How to be the best, least an**ying, 'Pokémon Go' trainer (http://mashable.com/2016/07/08/how-to-play-pokemon-go/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial)
To put things into perspective, SimilarWeb compared the numbers with several top Android apps out there. As of July 8, Pokémon Go was installed on twice as many Android devices in the U.S. as dating app Tinder. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-big-tinder-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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