Foursquare has a lot of momentum in the location-based social networking space right now but one thing holding it back is that’s it’s largely a U.S.-only phenomenon at the moment. This isn’t surprising considering that Foursquare works in all of five cities outside of the U.S. (three of which are in Canada). But that changes today.
Foursquare is rolling out its service in 15 European cities today. This list (below) includes many large cities on the continent, and also many of the hottest tourist destinations. So this is great not only for our European friends, but also for those of us who decide to take a Euro trip. Now that you can check-in in these 15 cities, there can be a whole new game element to vacations.
One city being added is Paris, which is good news for people who will be attending the LeWeb conference in December. Here’s the full list of new cities:
Paris
Madrid
Barcelona
Berlin
Munich
Prague
Geneva
Rome
Manchester
Dublin
Brussels
Athens
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Helsinki
Previously, only Amsterdam and London were available in Europe.
These 15 new cities pushes Foursquare’s total city count to 53. Just a few weeks ago, Foursquare added 15 other cities (all in the U.S. and Canada), so they’re clearly moving fast now to roll out widespread coverage.
The most popular way to use Foursquare remains its iPhone app, but the service is also quickly expanding its smartphone support. The service raised a $1.35 million seed round in September.
Hi,
MG, Are you sure its got momentum, or are you simply confusing “momentum” for “This is a service I really love and can’t stop going on about and filing multiple trivial stories about on Techcrunch to to add on top my Twitter my ADHD”? :p :p
Kind regards,
Shakir Razak
it looks as if foursquare grew tenfold in september. Google trends shows this coincides with 2 nytimes articles about it.
that said, lots of other services have lots of momentum, too.
One thing holding it back for me is the lack of people I know who use it.
True, but at least you’ll be the Mayor of a lot of place first!
Seriously though, I feel ya, there aren’t THAT many people on it (yet?). I hope it catches on more. It’s really addictive and I love how people can recommend things to do at places..
Foursquare is my favorite social media app of 2009. I would love to see the product develop widgets and maybe release an API. Since Kevin Rose is an adviser and investor, I’m sure these developments are in the works.
Foursquare is geo-location at its best!!!
Hope more and more web-related ads show some cleavage like this one.
What about roaming costs? is it really worth it to connect your data roaming to check into a place in Barcelona while roaming costs are still high with AT&T?
The funny thing about Europe is thatactual Europeans live there. They don’t have to roam in order to access their Foursquare within their own country.
That’s an eye-opener, huh?
atleast you could tell us about what it actually is/does or do you not have a clue ?. Because I sure have never heard of it,
Its a stupid little app where you go to a bar/nightclub/whatever, launch it and say “I’m here”, and the person with the most is the Mayor of that area.
Stupid.
Is this different from Involver?
I met the lead FourSquare guy last night at the New York Tech MeetUp. Briefly.
Gowalla is 10 times better then 4 square.
Gowalla.com
Dave, I agree.
Gowalla rocks