Foursquare has over 10,000,000 users

http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/06/20/holysmokes10millionpeople/

by websirnik • 15 years ago

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kosei2• 15 years ago

Who knew so many people checked in at their weddings and while giving birth?

huckfinnaafb• 15 years ago

Seems like a good way to communicate emergency stuff. Maybe not good. Maybe just available.

cbailey• 15 years ago

As long as you have Twitter and Facebook hooked up to your Foursquare account... None of my close friends use Foursquare, a couple of them have Twitters, and all of them have Facebook. Communicating location solely through Foursquare would fall under "Maybe not good" for me.

trafficlight2• 15 years ago

And how many of those are active?

masonhensley• 15 years ago

Good question, I have at least 12 of about 20 friends who have installed the application, tried it once and said "not for me."

edit(typo)

trafficlight2• 15 years ago

That's what my friends and I did. I had a couple of check-ins and thought, "what's the point of this?"

Frocer• 15 years ago

Well, according to TechCrunch, they are averaging 3M check-in's per day. Even if the average check-in per user is 1, that's 3M DAUs (which is highly unlikely). My guess is between 1M-2M DAUs with average of 1-3 check-in's per user per day.

eps• 15 years ago

These are just registered accounts. Everyone has a few million these days :) It'd be interesting to know:

1. How many are duplicates.

2. How many are active.

3. How many are truly active, i.e. are not kept just because one is too lazy to deactivate it.

kosei2• 15 years ago

That's why Facebook's numbers are so astounding. 500 million ACTIVE users, 250 million LOG IN DAILY.

PS- CityVille has 18.3 million daily average users.

famousactress• 15 years ago

Yep. The title of the article on 4sq reads "members", which is more accurate. Not sure if the 4sq folks changed their titles or if the HN poster mangled.

bproper• 15 years ago

It's true that engagement means more than installs here. That is why Foursquare is going after casual users. Dennis Crowley knows folks who don't check in often are key to really growing at scale.

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/20/foursquares-new-growth-st...

far33d• 15 years ago

With some quick analysis on some aggregate of 4sq feeds, you could determine the average # of checkins per user per day, which would let you estimate daily actives reasonably well (3m checkins / day)

theklub• 15 years ago

Groupon should buy foursquare and roll it into their system to help keep consumers coming back to their customers locations.

lefstathiou• 15 years ago

Not that I care nor that it matters, but I am going to go out on a limb here and assert that there is no way that the following is true (even plus or minus a few %):

"The Foursquare user demographic breakdown is currently about 50/50 male versus female and 50/50 for international versus U.S.

Two points: - Foursquare media and coverage is overhwelmingly American (thus lending to American users) - Foursquare appeals to a young demographic. Young demographics in gadgets and apps are dominated by young boys

I say this via my experience owning two gender neutral apps, one a mobile social network and the other a tool with over 50,000 and 100,000 users. In the absense of a pink icon and a "my little pony" picture, mobile apps overwhelmingly attract more males than females. My app, without even trying, has males on a ratio of 2-1. They are just more experimental. I recall reading a long time ago, when twitter had in the tens of millions of users, that its user base was also overwhelmingly male.

Anyway just thought I would share.

suking• 15 years ago

I don't know 1 person personally who uses it. Must be a valley thing?

sdizdar• 15 years ago

I thought 4sq is an East Coast thing...

Seriously, I really would like to know how many active users are on 4sq. Is there any data about it?

joejohnson• 15 years ago

I'm a user. I checked in once six months ago and haven't opened the app since.

fnazeeri• 15 years ago

Has anyone seen comparable numbers for Facebook Places? I used to be a Foursquare junkie, but when FB Places came out I pretty much stopped using the app...

SwellJoe• 15 years ago

I would have expected it to be much higher. But, I guess I shouldn't surprised it isn't...since I don't know anyone that uses it with any regularity. But, I don't live in the valley, anymore, so I'm out of the echo chamber.

I tried it, checked in at maybe four places, and then stopped. It's just too much trouble for no value I can discern. I mean, I see the value to the vendors, I see the value to Foursquare, I just don't see what I get out of it. (But, I also don't have a facebook status and I don't constantly tweet what I ate for breakfast, so I'm not the target audience, I guess. I'm not the self-reporter type.)

teflonhook• 15 years ago

I call bullshit.

Foursquare has over 10,000,000 users

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