Reposted from Mashable. Article by Lauren Indvik.
Shortly after CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Europe’s DLD conference Monday, Foursquare announced that more than 6 million people have registered a Foursquare account. In addition, the company released an infographic celebrating its impressive growth in 2010.
The infographic highlights, among other things:
- 381,576,305 checkins were made in 2010.
- A checkin has been made in every single country in the world, plus space.
- North Korea was the last country to check in.
- The Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 was the biggest event of the year, with 30,525 checkins made in Washington, D.C. that day.
- Food venues were the most popular checkin category in 2010; campuses were the least.
- MTV, Bravo, the History Channel, Zagat and VH1 were the most popular brand pages.
- California was the #1 state for gym checkins, relative to total checkins.
[via Foursquare]
