Foursquared?
Whatever happened to Foursquare?
It arrived with a minimum of fanfare.
Yet very quickly Twitter was littered with tweets telling where people were.
So I got on board.
I got addicted for a while too.
Especially with Mayorships.
But then I lost interest.
I suspect a lot of other people did too.
Now pretty much the only place I regularly check-in to is Wunderman Melbourne.
And that's only because I have a thing about being the Mayor of Wunderland.
I suspect the launch of Facebook Places may have had an impact on Foursquare too.
In fact each day I see more and more people checking-in via Facebook.
So I guess it must have.
And what does the future hold for Foursquare?
Not a lot I imagine.
But then again I could be wrong.
What do you think?
posted by Stan Lee at 3:19 am
5 Comments:
In New Zealand Foursquare is just catching on as the next big thing.
Sell it off to the Boy Scout Association of America?
I agree. I got excited about taking Mayorships and badges... now I'm kind of getting over it too.
With the 'offers near the area', I never got those either. Maybe I should've.
On Instagram now. Those shortcuts are being littered on twitter.
Anyway, I'm Mayor of Planet Earth. Beat that b*tches. Hehehe... yeah, still on it but not taking it seriously. I'll stay on it just to keep my mayorship. :)
I got bored with it too. The problem with it is that once it starts to get popular, employees of venues own all the mayorships because they are there everyday. Also, it just turns into another meaningless thing ... There's very little social value built into it.
Foursquare was always littered with outages. Especially when i was trying to become mayor of my favourite coffee place.
I think they could claw back against facebook places if they continue to innovate & make it more functional or challenging; make it more useful in our everyday lives, because i don't think you can hold your audience with the same level of competition.
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