So we grew 3400% last year…

Jan 24th

Honestly, 2010 was just insane. The numbers tell the story better than we can, so we put together this little infographic. (Also, our 6,000,000th user signed up last week!)















Click on the graphic to view full size.

UPDATE: Check out a larger version of the map here.

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99 Comments

  • http://www.thibaultgomarin.com/ Thibault Gomarin

    Congrats!

  • http://www.thibaultgomarin.com/ Thibault Gomarin

    Congrats!

  • Guest

    Congrats!

  • Guest

    Congrats!

  • Stephan Zacharias

    And I was part of it!

  • Luxminator

    Amazing! Congrats!

  • http://twitter.com/MomentFeed MomentFeed

    This is a great bit of research. Thanks so much for putting it together. http://www.momentfeed.com

  • http://twitter.com/Ian_Lunn Ian Lunn

    Awesome stats.

  • http://twitter.com/Ian_Lunn Ian Lunn

    Awesome stats!

  • Anonymous

    Love the info-graph — congrats

  • http://twitter.com/gb3 George Burnett III

    Gotta love fun statistics!

  • Anonymous

    facebook places has not had much impact on foursquare

  • Anonymous

    Amazing graphic!

  • http://twitter.com/impe83 Frankie Grey

    Nice stats BUT kinda low numbers on the Brand Pages considering the number of users…

  • http://twitter.com/dbbradle Derrick Bradley

    Wow. This is great you guys. Keep killin’ it in 2011.

  • http://twitter.com/dbbradle Derrick Bradley

    Wow. This is great you guys. Keep killin’ it in 2011.

  • http://deigote.com/ Deigote

    Haha i love the Wendys who are mayor of Wendy’s stat xD. Nice!

  • LikeaG6

    Release an app for the Nokia E71x please

  • LikeaG6

    Release an app for the Nokia E71x please

  • LikeaG6

    Release an app for the Nokia E71x please

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/dbin78 Dain Binder

    Great work! Viva la Foursquare!

  • http://twitter.com/MomentFeed MomentFeed

    Ok, then just congrats

  • Anonymous

    Wendy’s. Ha.

  • Anonymous

    Wendy’s… ha.

  • http://twitter.com/BrooklynBrett Brett Ruiz

    Awesome infographic guys!

  • http://www.JobCrank.com JobCrank, Inc.

    an amazing infographic with interesting insight…!

  • http://www.JobCrank.com JobCrank, Inc.

    an amazing infographic with interesting insight…!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • Wendy…..jk

    Lol @ the Wendy’s factoid!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SP44NBLZHWWAT2PAAENMS4XNE4 Sheepboy

    From the department of Useless Statistics…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SP44NBLZHWWAT2PAAENMS4XNE4 Sheepboy

    From the department of Useless Statistics…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SP44NBLZHWWAT2PAAENMS4XNE4 Sheepboy

    From the department of Useless Statistics…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SP44NBLZHWWAT2PAAENMS4XNE4 Sheepboy

    From the department of Useless Statistics…

  • http://danentin.typepad.com Dan Entin

    Congrats! Glad to see @Zagat is still in the top 5 brands on Foursquare.

  • Jason

    @Sheepboy It is great statistical information for marketing purposes. Just think who 4sqr can now go to form joint marketing alliances. think of the bigger picture :)

  • http://twitter.com/hyperdavid David Moreno

    mk

  • http://www.authand.com Authand

    amazing to achieve 3400% growth with everyone jumping on the location service bandwagon in 2010. Well done!

  • http://hacksocialmedia.com/ Tony

    3400% growth? Not too shabby. :D

  • http://hacksocialmedia.com/ Tony

    3400% growth? Not too shabby. :D

  • islandgirl

    YEA for Wendy at Wendy’s in Madison MS!

  • islandgirl

    YEA for Wendy at Wendy’s in Madison MS!

  • Louis

    Someone checked in in N.Korea? I wonder if it was Kim Jong Il, the self-professed internet buff.

  • http://twitter.com/ArtisticHustle @UNONUarts (Owner)

    Cool.

  • http://www.whitezine.com Joseph

    This is just huge :)

  • http://twitter.com/EL_Postal Lee Poston

    Like the Wendys who checked in at Wendy’s info.

  • http://twitter.com/petertrimble petertrimble

    Anyone know of a service/app that can generate a global map (data points) as is done at the top of the above infographic? I would love to generate something similar for one of my apps!

  • http://www.facebook.com/antony.evans Antony Evans

    I want to hang out with the people who are checking into nightclubs at lunchtime!!

  • http://zachcole.com Zach Cole

    Congrats! CA takes the cake!

  • http://twitter.com/JohanBruynseels Johan Bruynseels

    Cool !

  • http://twitter.com/JohanBruynseels Johan Bruynseels

    Cool

  • http://www.dynamicwebsolutions.com Brian Forrester

    They got a signal at the International Space Station and I have trouble checking in in Richmond? They must not use AT&T in space.

  • http://shaival.posterous.com/ Shaival Shah

    Awesome! Simply Awesome! Great work to the 4sq crew! Can I get a stream of people checking into bars between 11am – 2pm … on a Monday?

  • Anonymous

    wow – congratulations 4sq !!!

  • http://twitter.com/iGo2Group iGo2

    Fantastic Social Technology Foursquare!

    We did some analysis of the Australian usage and commercializing through references/amplification – see Commercializing Foursquare in Australia http://igo2group.com.au/blog/commercializing-foursquare-in-australia/

  • http://www.freezecrowd.com/ Eric Leebow

    That’s amazing! Hope my site can have similar success as you’re having :) It’s a lot of hard work! Keep up the great work!

  • http://www.facebook.com/roelandp Roeland Landegent

    Supercool guys. Thanks for this entertaining blogpost and infographic. Love the Wendys at Wendys and the map of course. Keep em coming!

  • http://twitter.com/HootWatch HootWatch

    Congrats Foursquare! We’re glad to be a lil slice of your eco-system.

  • http://twitter.com/rkblogs Rk

    show me the money.

  • http://twitter.com/rkblogs Rk

    show me the money

  • http://technbiz.blogspot.com paramendra

    6 million is really something. Congrats.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_54EIE2QWSA332L6VDKDTMKIIGA who

    copycat. FB has a map first.
    Wonder why Indonesia has so many social users.

  • Ron Verweij

    ha ha, was at the greatest check in event but did not check in !!!

  • PJAS(NL)

    I don’t understand why the bottom part concentrates on the US. Internet is global and look at the map… this is not a US world!

  • SiteMast

    You guys have something exciting going on!

  • http://baratunde.com baratunde

    mayor wendy of wendy’s should get free wendy’s for life

  • Jason

    HEY 4SQ – WHAT FONT IS THAT YOU ARE USING? The one for all the text?

  • http://twitter.com/DarcyKelley Darcy Kelley

    Foursquare grew a lot last year. But it’s NOT going mainstream – any time soon. Top places checked-in skew hipster, upmarket. The brand “fit,” for now, is luxury. We should remember Twitter was hipster for 3 or 4 years… and now, it’s still not middle class/mainstream as a communication platform. I don’t see 4sq evolving any differently.

  • http://twitter.com/Cloggin Cloggin
  • http://twitter.com/asharfin Andrea Sharfin

    I am disappointed about Florida’s check-in participation. Can you check into a beach?

  • condominium

    THAILAND !! wow ! im so surprised with top 3 wine bar !

  • http://www.SearchPerspective.com Cory Grassell

    Just started using foursquare. I WILL be mayor someday…

  • http://rynoweb.com Chuck Reynolds

    Have you / will you guys publish the hard numbers like the checkins per day per category type stuff? would be cool to dig into the data

  • http://twitter.com/TheDaveCable David Cable

    Surely because the USA has embraced location software and networks the most?!

  • http://smartaboutthings.com Radu Tyrsina

    I wonder, was it available to buy shares when you guys started?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jensmurer Jens Oliver Murer

    Yeah, we really need those graphics for other parts of the world. How are we supposed to emphasize the importance of a thing when even those responsible tell us it’s an American thing?
    Please give us something like this for the other white parts of the map. No need for the Wendy’s part though ;)

  • cynthia4godwin

    Nice To Meet You,
    My name is Miss Cynthia ,As I whisper my prayer tonight and went into search for a nice friend at google that is(internet) I came across your contact,My mind and my heart told me to contact you for friendship, A friend who truly understand his or her friend and share their feelings together. please kindly accept my request, I believe that distance or age can never be a barrier but let’s love connect us because love is a bridge that connected far distance to be close to each other, I will send my pictures to you immediately i receive your reply at my email address
    cynthia4godwin@yahoo.co.uk
    yours In Love,
    cynthia
    cynthia4godwin@yahoo.co.uk

  • cynthia4godwin

    Nice To Meet You,
    My name is Miss Cynthia ,As I whisper my prayer tonight and went into search for a nice friend at google that is(internet) I came across your contact,My mind and my heart told me to contact you for friendship, A friend who truly understand his or her friend and share their feelings together. please kindly accept my request, I believe that distance or age can never be a barrier but let’s love connect us because love is a bridge that connected far distance to be close to each other, I will send my pictures to you immediately i receive your reply at my email address
    cynthia4godwin@yahoo.co.uk
    yours In Love,
    cynthia
    cynthia4godwin@yahoo.co.uk

  • http://twitter.com/lukekintigh Luke B. Kintigh

    Why do you use Foursquare? Please take this short Univ. of Oregon survey. Only takes 5 mins! Happy to share results, just let me know – http://bit.ly/gn7h95

  • Eric SU3

    hey! i did the survey and would love to see the results! ericSU3@me.com
    Thanks!

  • RussK

    I love your service and use it perfectly with my webOS phone. More superusers need to be created, in smaller non-metro areas, because duplicate venues are starting to increase a lot.

  • Adriankennett

    I think 1 in 100 people would know what foursquare is and how it’s works in Australia.

  • http://www.microsourcing.com/disciplines/technical-support.asp MicroSourcing

    Growth by 3400% is no small feat, especially on the global level. Very commendable.

  • Grgdx2

    omg!

  • http://www.facebook.com/arvadi.hutagalung Arvadi Hutagalung

    selamat pagi

  • ai. R

    Useless to you, maybe ;)

  • http://yourdissertation.com/ order thesis

    Don’t you guys think that this is a so sad statistics?? WE are degrading….

  • http://blog.foursquare.com foursquare

    we use Gotham, thanks for asking!

  • Monica Manu

    wow!!! keep the good work guys!!!

  • http://www.seochester.co.uk/ SEO Chester

    Congratulations, that is superb :D

  • Yvette_madi

    Hello, can you please share numbers and statistics in the Middle East region ..

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  • Leland

    Random survey spam is fail. 

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