Graph of Foursquare's Popularity After Removing Check-Ins
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Graph of Foursquare's Popularity After Removing Check-Ins
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#2Why on earth did they think this was a good idea? Checkins were the point of foursquare. Mildly annoying to other people on your social media, but that also informed them of its existence.
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#3This matches my real life observations. I personally stopped using both Foursquare and Swarm and I know a lot of people who did.
However, this graph does not mention the popularity of Swarm. It's likely that some Foursquare users switched to Swarm and uninstalled Foursquare entirely.
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#4It's kind of hard to make sense of that graph without a vertical axis scale. I can't even tell if it starts at 0.
Is there a version with scale?
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#5Why on earth did they think this was a good idea? Checkins were the point of foursquare. Mildly annoying to other people on your social media, but that also informed them of its existence.
> Why on earth did they think this was a good idea?
Because they pivoted with poor knowledge of their users wants/needs/requirements.
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#6Why on earth did they think this was a good idea? Checkins were the point of foursquare. Mildly annoying to other people on your social media, but that also informed them of its existence.
I guess they saw themselves losing steam and figured they should try something risky.
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#7Why on earth did they think this was a good idea? Checkins were the point of foursquare. Mildly annoying to other people on your social media, but that also informed them of its existence.
No kidding
"Open 4sq, tries to check-in, remembers it's on Swarm now, eventually gives up"
They killed the reflex (also we may discuss on some more global trends, twitter usage by early adopters dwindling, etc)
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#8This matches my real life observations. I personally stopped using both Foursquare and Swarm and I know a lot of people who did. However, this graph does not mention the popularity of Swarm. It's likely that some Foursquare users switched to Swarm and uninstalled Foursquare entirely.
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#9I'm still astounded by this. They had a #&$%ing verb. That is the #&$%ing gold standard of presence. "I'm going to foursquare this." I actually heard real human beings say this.
If your app name has become a verb the last thing you ever want to do is refocus. If you want to go to a ratings app like they apparently did (because... uh... that's not a saturated space or anything?...) then you make another app and leave your wildly successful app alone.
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#10Today I use Swarm more like a location history than anything else.