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"It looks like a new version of Draw Something is on the way. Ryan Seacrest tweeted an image of the game Monday morning along with the message, \u201CI somehow convinced them to give me #DrawSomething2 first\u201D and a drawing of American Idol judges Randy Jackson and Mariah Carey.\n\nI somehow convinced them to give me #DrawSomething2 first\u2026this may be the best Mariah &amp; Randy have ever looked twitter.com/RyanSeacrest/s\u2026\n\u2014 Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) March 18, 2013\n\nDraw Something, created by social-gaming startup OMGPOP, launched a little over a year ago. Exceptionally popular, the game reached 50 million downloads during its first seven weeks in Apple\u2019s App Store.\nZynga purchased the game in March of last year for a reported $180 million, bringing its staff and CEO Dan Porter into the company.\nDuring an interview last month, Porter told us that the company was working on a few surprises for later this year.\nSEE ALSO: Exclusive: Draw Something Turns One, Hits 100 Million Downloads\n\n\u201CAll I can say is, prepare to have your mind blown with new features no other game has,\u201D Porter told us. \u201CYou ain't seen nothing yet!\u201D\nBased on Seacrest's tweet, it seems that the company may be getting ready for the big reveal. \nFrom the screenshot, it looks like the second-generation of Draw Something will support backgrounds and will bring chat into the same page where you are creating an image. Currently, you have to wait to chat until you've completed drawing an image or guessing an image drawn by your opponent.\nWhile certainly not as popular as it was a year ago, Draw Something still has a substantial number of daily users.\n\u201CWe are very stable now, with millions of people still playing every day and we are still one of the largest mobile social games of all time based on daily active users,\u201D Porter told us last month.\nOver the past year, Draw Something users have drawn more than 11 billion drawings with a mind-boggling 28,000 years of game play. The app has been number one in 84 different countries over the past 12 months, hitting its peak in the spring of last year- - when roughly 3,000 drawings were made every second.\nAre you excited about Draw Something 2? Tell us what features you'd like to see in the game in the comments.\nImage via Kevin Winter/Getty Images\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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