Facebook Poke Falls Out of Top 25 Apps as Snapchat Hits Top 5

So much for Facebook Poke killing off Snapchat.

Facebook's new iPhone app, which copies Snapchat's self-destruct feature for messages, disappeared from the top of Apple's most downloaded apps list almost as quickly as messages disappear from the app.

Poke was released on Friday and rose to the top of Apple's App Store that same day, displacing Google Maps as the most popular free app in the U.S. The app has since dropped out of the top 10. In fact, it's not even in the top 25.

As of publication, Facebook Poke has dropped to 34th on the list of the most popular free apps.

One theory put out by Josh Constine at TechCrunch is that Poke's decline may be due to the fact that many p…
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