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    Foursquare is a social networking service launched in 2009. It allows users to check-in at locations and receive recommendations. By 2013, Foursquare had reached 30 million users including President Obama. The author shares their positive personal experience with Foursquare's quality users, ease of use, and feedback. Check-ins on Foursquare grew significantly from 2011 to 2017. The author rates Foursquare higher than other social media apps like Facebook and Path due to its consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.

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    Foursquare

    Social Networking

    Abdulaziz Alsowaigh
    EDT 180
    Technology Literacy: Problem Solving using Digital
    Technology Applications

    1
    New_foursquare_icon_logo

    History

    Service was launched in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and


    Naveen Selvadurai
    In 2013 Foursquare reached 30 million users
    President Barack Obama joined Foursquare

    2
    Local search and
    recommendations
    Ratings
    Tastes

    3
    Who can use it?
    What is the difference
    between Foursquare
    and other social media?
    source

    4
    My personal experience
    With Foursquare

    Quality of users
    Easy to adopt
    Great feedbacks

    source

    5
    Number of check-ins by registered members on Foursquare
    from 2011to 2017
    Number of check Ins in millions

    14000
    12000
    10000
    8000
    6000
    Series 1
    4000
    2000
    0
    Aug '11
    Oct '11

    Jun '12
    Jan '13

    May '14
    Mar '12

    Aug '17
    Mar '15
    Jan '14

    Jan '16
    Sep '16

    6
    Why I use Foursquare?

    More consistent

    More accurate

    More efficient

    Scale one to ten shows my final rate

    Foursquare Facebook Path


    9/10 5/10 6/10
    7
    Thank you for your kind attention
    Email. Sowigeta@gmail.com

    8
    References

    About Foursquare. (2013). Retrieved February 21, 2013, from https://foursquare.com/about/

    "Foursquare Raises $35M More, Says It Has 45M Registered Users". techcrunch. 2013. Retrieved
    2013-12-19.

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