Comments on: Foursquare vs Gowalla. Too early to pick a winner, or have you decided?

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By: FabianPattberg

FabianPattberg — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:55:27 +0000

Interesting that it crashes for you as well. I will uninstall it now and see whether it will work in a few weeks time.
Foursquare as a business seems to have more money behind it that is why I believe it be number one in the long run.

By: FabianPattberg

FabianPattberg — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:55:27 +0000

By: jjprojects

jjprojects — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:47:20 +0000

Yes, I've found that the latest version of Foursquare on iPhone crashes on me quite a bit. The version before didn't do that. As I said, I like the photos and comments features of Gowalla right now, but more of my local social media friends are on Foursquare right now.

By: jjprojects

jjprojects — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:47:20 +0000

By: jjprojects

jjprojects — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:45:13 +0000

Interesting that Gowalla has more activity in Germany than Foursquare. Yes, there's definitely more activity on Foursquare in Australia at the moment. True too, that it does take a while to update both. Sometimes I don't have time for that. No doubt there will be various services soon that allow you to update multiple location-based apps at the same time, and see activity as well.

By: jjprojects

jjprojects — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:45:13 +0000

By: FabianPattberg

FabianPattberg — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:31:49 +0000

Some good points. I am using both as well at the moment via the iPhone but I have a clear favorite. Gowalla. I am based in the UK and every time I am starting Foursquare and it does not find a spot it closes the app automatically again. So annoying. Maybe it is only my version but Gowalla is so much more user-friendly and has so many more spots here in the UK.

By: Royce Fullerton

Royce Fullerton — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:11:14 +0000

Most of my contacts from Australia and the US that are using one of the services are using Foursquare but I am currently living in Germany and Gowalla has much more activity (still not much). I was checking in on both but this quickly became a pain, especially on a 1st gen iPhone. I have currently decided to stick with Gowalla as the whole location based services are much more interesting with interaction (I already know where I am). I do like the 'mayor' idea in Foursquare and I hope that Gowalla integrates something similar. I am now waiting for more of my friends to show up on Gowalla.