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This is an ignorant question, but do apps have access to the social graph? If so, I'd assume the top game applications have a substantial portion.

You can get names and Facebook IDs of user's friends for anyone who signs in with your app. I don't believe you can fetch their friends through the API, so the game companies should have access to only edges in which one person uses a game.

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