care to share how many of these are geekoid checkins at the sxsw event? people *are* checking in more than once per day (especially with the new badge fanfare). Divide number by average # of checkins and it’s a relatively small number.

Do you guys have stock in 4 Square or what?

+1 to myself.

You should check out http://sxsw.cliqset.com/ for real-time geo updates from BrightKite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Flickr and Qik.

Surprised they weren’t mentioned here.

Yeah– I was thinking the same thing.

You’re kidding yourselves if you think the check-in rate on a Friday = the check-in rate throughout the week. You can’t just multiply by 7 and say they have 2 million check-ins per week.

Techcrunch will only go legit if we stop reading it. They know they can get away with whatever right now. This twitter and now Foursquare pushing isn’t coincidental.
The title itself is already complete hyperbole for a service that barely half a million users use. (however you want to ‘define’ use because with just 300K checkins, those 500,000 users aren’t even daily users).
“And It Begins: Foursquare Shatters Its Check-In Record The Day Before SXSW”

this is exactly what i was thinking, and i wouldnt doubt that, pumping a site multiple times daily that noones ever heard of… yea i dont think anyone would do this without money being involved, even the biggest fanboy knows when to stop

After following Techcruch daily over last few months, I find it very un-interesting to find posts about silly updates of “location-based services” everyday. MG, please take a break or people like me would have to take a break from TC.

dude, do you get paid by the word when you write about Foursquare? Geez…

What’s the over/under on TC posts about Foursquare this week? 20?

Foursquare has X check-ins, GoWalla has Y check-ins. BFD!? Wake me up when either of them makes any real money rather than just divert geeks’ attention from jerking off or cranking out code toward doing self-important check-ins, so they can feel like they actually matter in this world.

Yes, I use FourSquare a couple of times a week (especially when I’m traveling) mainly to track interesting places (usually restaurants) for myself. But I just don’t see how you can justify writing about it every friggin day on TechCrunch!

I take back my comment about geeks, who write code. They’re way too smart to be wasting time on Foursquare or GoWalla. The wannabe geeks, who can’t write code, are the ones who need to check-in (even at a friggin conference registration booth!? please!), so they can feel self-important.

Foursquare allows registered users to connect with friends and update their location. Points are awarded on weekends and non-business hours for “checking in” at venues. Users can choose to have their Twitter and/or their Facebook accounts updated when they check in

Currently this one is starting to dominate the way how you discover geo-targets in USA (using social media and game) /More details: http://bit.ly/foursquare-detailed-review

36 right now for the week. a new article every few hours about a site noones heard about or cares about

Guys, every day I read something about Foursquare on this site, man you could not buy pulicity like this – whats up??

you’re so close to the truth. stay on the path.

you do know you’re more than welcome not to read every post, right?

yep no one. not bravo, not starbucks, not las vegas, not harvard, etc, etc, etc. all a big conspiracy to get people using a service they dont want to use. case closed.

the ends justify the means. or something.

fair enough. but i think these next five days (and actually longer because of the other parts of SXSW) will see a similar rate

told you, paid in gift certs to long john silvers.

Tweet in screenshot posted “1 minutes ago in Web”…

My what a quick write-up about the tweet sent one minute prior.

yup, thats why I said “I find”, I don’t “read” these posts anymore. BTW, I can’t find any comment praising this report here. Can’t you take a cue? Some of us do want to know about “location-based services” but you don’t need to bombard them with a report every time a fly moves in a foursquare or gowalla office.

Dude, they claim a 500k userbase and 300K is their record for check ins in a day. Don’t you see a problem there?

“At today’s rate, Foursquare would be doing well over 2 million check-ins a week.”

hmm, at today’s rate, techcrunch will be writing 1.2 articles a day for every 100k checkins.

Jeez guys, give it a freakin rest, and cover another company!

When Foursquare farts in the bathtub, is Siegler there to count the bubbles?

Does anybody have a firefox plugin to warn me if the page I’m about to view is related to “check-ins”, “Foursquare”, or “Gowalla”? I’ve had enough, and it seems its going to get worse in the coming days. You thought the iphone talk was bad…

All of those organizations are front-running. They’ll disappear as quickly as they showed to the party. That’s what marketers do. Don’t justify your coverage because some organizations wanted to gain street cred with the fringe tech scene.

If I hosted a huge party, and have everybody a took hats to wear, I’m pretty certain we’d have record took usage. Once everybody goes home, the tooks go into the trash.

Given the current state and potential of location based startups your coverage is appropriate. I often read the entire article.

Now on the other hand the comments..

It’s one thing if you knew that you’re a fraud by getting paid for writing about technology nobody cares about. But you seem to think that your coverage of this dork-fight is meaningful journalism of some sort.

Don’t confuse MG with ‘metrics’, or ‘facts’, or ‘numbers’. Those big ideas are too complex for a technology writer.

He’s right though. I mostly use TechCrunch for the fun of hearing MG whine about comments. Big babies are hilarious.

If you want good coverage of technology by actually smart people read Gigaom. TechCrunch is an amusing collection of hacks with delusions of their own importance and quality.

yep

http://www.confessionhub.com

yea ok

http://www.confessionhub.com

this says it all about 4square and techcrunch-

http://bit.ly/9DsOXk

[...] And It Begins: Foursquare Shatters Its Check-In Record The Day Before SXSW [...]

thanks for the links……

[...] of March 2010, Foursquare has 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues according to Tech Crunch, keeping Gowalla at a solid second place. Why are more people checking out Foursquare, leaving [...]

[...] of March 2010, Foursquare has 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues according to Tech Crunch, keeping Gowalla at a solid second place. Why are more people checking out Foursquare, leaving [...]

[...] wild growth for the occasion. The site surpassed its own record of 275,000 check-ins in a day. TechCrunch contextualizes this milestone, explaining that the company had 1.2 million check-ins in a week just [...]

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