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> 90% of our checkin users have moved over to Swarm and continue to check in

You/Foursquare really should clarify exactly what you mean by this - we keep hearing how "successful" Swarm is but it seems most [former] users (including me) and their friends (including mine) stopped using it when (or shortly after) the switch happened.

Right now Foursquare sounds like Google in the early days of Google+ where they were touting how much people were posting but everybody was saying they never saw any activity in their stream.




There is some sort of automated checking in going on; I haven't checked in even once in Swarm, and I've been asked by my friends if I'm a fan of this change because apparently, I've been checking in all over the city.


Your location/neighborhood is being updated automatically in the background, but you are not automatically checked into venues.


Considering how popular it is to inflate ego metrics, safe to assume 90% means 90% of people who use the app everyday, or something incredibly obtuse.

Not even Candy Crush can say 90% of users download a new game, etc. Let alone Foursquare. yawns




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