Flappy Bird is raking in around $50,000 USD daily, thanks to in-app ads. Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen revealed the financial details and discussed his game's success in an interview with The Verge

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"The reason Flappy Bird is so popular is that it happens to be something different from mobile games today and is a really good game to compete against each other," Nguyen told The Verge. "People in the same classroom can play and compete easily because [Flappy Bird] is simple to learn, but you need skill to get a high score."Nguyen also said he has no plans to charge for the game or even update it.The free-to-play title — which has been downloaded 50 million times — has become an indie game sensation on the App Store and Google Play Store, sitting at the top of the charts for close to a month.

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