One Month Later, Facebook Poke Drops Out of Top 700 Apps

On Dec. 21, Facebook released Poke, a messaging app with a built-in self-destruct feature that was intended to take on Snapchat. Facebook Poke hit #1 on Apple's list of free apps in the U.S. the following day, but it didn't hold onto the top spot long, dropping out of the top 25 less than a week later.

Now, one month after it launched, Poke has fallen out of the top 50, the top 500 and is well on its way to falling out of the top 1,000 free apps. As of Monday, Facebook Poke had dropped to number 706 on the list of Apple's top free apps, according to data from AppAnnie, a service that tracks app rankings.

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