Foursquare might’ve been last year’s breakout app at SXSW, but it looks like this year’s conference had a much more profound impact on the service’s growth. The location based network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that it’s added “almost 100,000 users” in the past 10 days.
That’s a huge number when you consider that the year-old company reported having “over 500,000” users less than a week ago. Anecdotally, I can also tell you that the surge in friend requests received over the past several days roughly lines-up with the numbers that Foursquare is reporting – in other words, my network seems to be growing proportionally to Foursquare on the whole.
Foursquare also reported a record check-in day over the weekend, with 347,000 of them taking place on Saturday, a surge also fueled in large part by SXSW festivities. As for the much talked about rivalry between Foursquare and Gowalla, we’ve reached out to the latter for their own comparable stats, though they indicated that as of Tuesday evening they’d seen 100,000 check-ins in Austin since last Thursday.
Reviews: Foursquare, Gowalla
Tags: foursquare, gowalla, sxsw
