Post tagged "geo-location"
The Mayor of Where, or the Loser's Guide to Dominating Foursquare
Foursquare has become a battleground. In this corner, wearing sequined trunks, me. In the other corner Tonia.
Tonia enjoys certain natural advantages:
She has fine motor skills, meaning that she …more…
Foursquare Growth is 109% in Last 30 Days
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley shared the statistic with his Twitter followers, saying that he’d received an IM from Harry Heymann stating that “@foursquare growth is now 109% in last 30 days.” …more…
Twitter Becoming More Global; Surge in Usage in Brazil, Indonesia, Germany
Sysomos has updated their analysis of tweets by geography, and has found that the use of Twitter is becoming more widely distributed around the world. The company also found that almost no one is using the geo-location API tool that Twitter launched last August, with only 0.23% of all Tweets tagged with geo-location. Among the most significant differences was a surge in Brazil, which accounted for 8.8% of unique users, an increase of more than four-fold from 2% in June. Twitter users in Indonesia accounted for 2.4% of the population, compared with less than 0.5%, while Twitter users in Germany rose to 2.5% from 1.5%. …more…
