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Foursquare Surpasses 10 Million Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

20 Jun

Foursquare hit a big milestone over the weekend: It surpassed the 10 million user mark, becoming the first location-based social network to do so.

The startup, which launched in March 2009, posted the following infographic on its blog to celebrate the announcement Monday:


The infographic highlights, among other things:

  • Accelerated growth over time: It took the startup five months to get its first 100,000 users and roughly seven weeks to get its last million.
  • Its growing global reach: 358 million checkins have been made outside of the U.S.
  • The most popular checkin locations in the U.S.: Old Navy, Bank of America, 7-Eleven, Home Depot and Target all top the list.
  • A few fun facts: New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is also the Foursquare mayor of City Hall in NYC, and nearly 80,000 Foursquare mayors are ousted each day.

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Social Media Landscape In China [Infographic]

02 Mar

Ogilvy has released an infographic detailing the major social media players and their Chinese counter parts. Although the infographic was first published six months back, the rise of services like Groupon and Quora in the west and Tencent in China rendered the previous infographic some what irrelevant.

According to the new infographic, the online trade segment is competed by eBay, Taobao and 360 buy. In the social networking segment LinkedIn is pitted against Welink and Uchi.cn, and Facebook against Renren and Douban. Twitter is competing with Sohu and QQ in the microblogging category, with Youtube facing competition from Youku.com in online video sharing. The online music sharing is being battled out by Spotify and Xiami and Top100.cn. Foursquare is competing with Jiepand and Kai in the location based services segment and Groupon is facing competitors like Manzuo and Meituan in the daily deals sector.

All in all the infographic does a pretty good job of showing the fact that every Social Media segment is being fiercely contested by local and global players in China.

Note: You can click on the infographic to enlarge it.

 
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