Foursquare Getting Baked In To Phone And Announce Impressive Growth Figures

News May 23, 2011 2 Comments

So this week I am over at one of the biggest tech conferences of the year called Techcrunch Disrupt over in New York. It features some of the biggest speakers from the around the tech world and I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments from there. Crowley announced some pretty impressive numbers including nearly 10 million registered users, 2 million checkins per day and nearly 600 million checkins in the last year.There are also 10,000 developers working off the Foursquare API which Crowley says “is opening up some serious innovation”.

The biggest announcement he made was that for the first time ever Foursquare phone that is being built in to INQ phones which are already on sale although the Foursquare stuff won’t be live until August. You may remember it as the same “Facebook phone” that has Facebook baked in to it. It’s an interesting move given the fact that Foursquare is a product that always gets used on your mobile while you are out and about. 10 Million users of Foursquare is still light enough but it will be interesting to see if this speeds things up and takes them to the next level in terms of growth.

The biggest bone that Crowley has had in the past has been with Facebook and the fact that they have tried to copy Foursquare with their places product. Crowley says though that they are still seeing huge growth with a million new users added every month. He also said that he “Doesn’t think of it as a game any more and that it was never really meant to be a game. What they really want to do is help users find data in the real world. So because you have a phone in your pocket Foursquare will help you to find the best things in the real world.”

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