After Three Weeks, Foursquare Hits One Million Photos
Foursquare hit one million photos over the weekend but it’s unclear who posted the one millionth photo. The fact that the startup hit the milestone so quickly is not surprising, considering that Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley said in late December that the network was approaching one photo uploaded per second. One factor that has contributed to this traction is that Foursquare launched their photo functionality with a number of popular partners including Instagram, PicPlz, and Foodspotting. The photo uploading functionality was also added to its Android app.
To put this number in perspective, Flickr recently hit 5 billion photos and are seeing 3,000 images uploaded every minute.
UPDATE: Foursquare’s millionth photo came from a user Paris, France.