Foursquare Now 3 Million Strong. Foursquare Now Seeing A Check-In Each Second. Last Friday, the location-based service Foursquare announced that it was opening their service to be used anywhere in the world. The following day, they saw the biggest day in terms of usage ever, apparently. This past Saturday, Foursquare was averaging more than a check-in a second, according to this tweet from the official account.
Some quick math tells me that this means they must have seen over 86,000 check-ins in that 24 hour span. While Foursquare hasn’t publicly stated how many users they have, our best guess is that the number is something around 200,000 (with many following Scoble) and growing fast. And while that would make Foursquare much smaller than Twitter (which, in turn, is much smaller than Facebook), it makes the check-in numbers even more impressive. The latest version of Foursquare’s iPhone app, version 1.5, went live in the App Store today.
Foursquare On Pace To Hit 3 Million Users Early Next Month. Tristan walker: 100 millionth foursquare c... Foursquare Now Adding Nearly 100,000 Users A Week. Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Perc. Editor’s note: The following analysis is written by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics. Location-based social networks Foursquare and Gowalla are accumulating users (and headlines) with impressive momentum. While both companies have been vocal about reaching major milestones, we wanted to take a closer look at the data behind these accomplishments. Based on our estimates, Foursquare is not only bigger in terms of both users and venues, but it also is growing at a faster clip than Gowalla.
For the past four weeks, we’ve been monitoring the Foursquare and Gowalla APIs to track growth rates, as well as to sample users and venues. This data was loaded into an RJMetrics Dashboard, which provided the results found here with just a few clicks. Here are a few highlights from our findings: User Growth Venue Growth User Characteristics. Foursquare: Everyone loves Stats Thurs...