Well, not long after my previous Foursquare vs Gowalla post comes the unsurprising news that following South by Southwest (SXSW), the growth of Foursqaure in not slowing down. According to the above tweet from the company (via Mashable), Foursquare’s total number of users is closing in on 725,000, with 22 million checkins between them!
This kind of growth is certainly reminiscent of Twitter’s growth after SXSW in 2007. They never looked back from there, even with the frequent technical glitches and periods of unscheduled downtime that eventually brought Twitter’s Fail Whale image into the pop cultural eye. No wonder there seems to be a battle going on between VCs to invest in the company right now.
The image below is a graph of unique visitors to Foursquare.com. This is not at all an accurate number of users and checkins, as checkin activity is via mobile application, but it does give an indication of the level of growth in interest in the service. The graph only shows the growth up until February, so it’ll be interesting to see what happened in March!
If you are on Foursquare, how much are you using it? If you’re not on it, are you going to jump on the bandwagon yet? If so, feel free to add me :)
