Playing Diamond Dash on Facebook

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By Julie Mollins

More than 10 million Facebook users play glitzy Diamond Dash each month, according to developer Wooga, making it one of the most popular games on the social networking site.

Now the game, which requires tapping on as many groups of gems of the same color as possible within 60 seconds to accumulate points, is also available on iPhone and iPad, as part of an increasing trend to make social games mobile.

"On mobile, most games have been for single players," Wooga co-founder and Chief Executive Jens Begemann told Reuters in an interview at LeWeb, a conference in Paris late last year where about 3,500 of the world's top digital experts and entrepreneurs from 60 countries meet each year to discuss the state of the tech industry.

Diamond Dash players can now compete with each other across mobile devices and desktop machines.