The number of Facebook apps can get a touch overwhelming at times. Even while the social site does not reveal an exact number, according to some estimates there are more than 100,000 such applications that are monitored for trends. A small business, trying to decide which of these can help it can well be daunting.

In the previous post, we have already discussed a couple of handy Facebook apps that facilitate user interaction and improve communication with your most loyal fans on the popular social site. For instance, in case you are updating a blog, RSS Graffiti can post its excerpt with a direct link onto the wall of your Facebook page. On the other hand, ContactMe inserts a tab into your official Facebook Page with a contact form. This lets a visitor to your page to conveniently get in touch with you. Now, let us discuss a few more apps that can ease your interaction with Facebook fans.

‘Tweets to Pages’, which boasts well over 1 million monthly active users, is handy to display your Twitter Feed. What does it offer?

• The application creates a tab on a company’s Facebook Page, which shows a timeline of its most recent tweets. It’s a handy feature for offering real-time, additional data to Facebook users not having a Twitter account.
• |It’s aimed at avoiding inconvenience or annoyance, if any, to your fans in case you were constantly streaming official tweets to the former as wall updates. This particular app is quite easy to set up. Its free version lets you adjust the number of tweets, which show up on the Tweets to Pages tab.
• If you get the paid version, you are in a better position to control the  content limits, set a color scheme, insert a banner and seek comments/feedback on your tweets.

Next in line is Static HTML: iframe Tabs, which is for creating a custom landing page. It reportedly has more than 61 million monthly users. Here are its features:

• It is so designed as to simplify the process of creating a custom landing page. The app automates many of the steps involved.
• Just forget about getting a developer account and your own app — it gives copy & paste text boxes for all your custom HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. It incorporates checkboxes for removing the scrollbars and to easily enable Facebook FBML.
• If you wish to incentivize Likes, the app allows you to ‘like-gate’, and display different content on your page to the users who have and have not ‘liked’ it. Of course, you are still required to host your own files, and also check whether you can remove the scrollbars for a design of certain sizes (520 pixels wide x 800 pixels tall).

I am sure you must be using some other  Facebook Page apps to facilitate the flow of communication with your fans. So, why don’t you share them for the benefit of other readers?