Foursquare has over 10,000,000 users

These are just registered accounts. Everyone has a few million these days :) It'd be interesting to know:<p>1. How many are duplicates.<p>2. How many are active.<p>3. How many are truly active, i.e. are not kept just because one is too lazy to deactivate it.

Groupon should buy foursquare and roll it into their system to help keep consumers coming back to their customers locations.

I would have expected it to be much higher. But, I guess I shouldn't surprised it isn't...since I don't know anyone that uses it with any regularity. But, I don't live in the valley, anymore, so I'm out of the echo chamber.<p>I tried it, checked in at maybe four places, and then stopped. It's just too much trouble for no value I can discern. I mean, I see the value to the vendors, I see the value to Foursquare, I just don't see what I get out of it. (But, I also don't have a facebook status and I don't constantly tweet what I ate for breakfast, so I'm not the target audience, I guess. I'm not the self-reporter type.)

Not that I care nor that it matters, but I am going to go out on a limb here and assert that there is no way that the following is true (even plus or minus a few %):<p>"The Foursquare user demographic breakdown is currently about 50/50 male versus female and 50/50 for international versus U.S.<p>Two points: - Foursquare media and coverage is overhwelmingly American (thus lending to American users) - Foursquare appeals to a young demographic. Young demographics in gadgets and apps are dominated by young boys<p>I say this via my experience owning two gender neutral apps, one a mobile social network and the other a tool with over 50,000 and 100,000 users. In the absense of a pink icon and a "my little pony" picture, mobile apps overwhelmingly attract more males than females. My app, without even trying, has males on a ratio of 2-1. They are just more experimental. I recall reading a long time ago, when twitter had in the tens of millions of users, that its user base was also overwhelmingly male.<p>Anyway just thought I would share.

Who knew so many people checked in at their weddings and while giving birth?

And how many of those are active?

It's true that engagement means more than installs here. That is why Foursquare is going after casual users. Dennis Crowley knows folks who don't check in often are key to really growing at scale.<p><a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/20/foursquares-new-growth-strategy-users-who-dont-check-in/" rel="nofollow">http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/20/foursquares-new-growth-st...</a>

With some quick analysis on some aggregate of 4sq feeds, you could determine the average # of checkins per user per day, which would let you estimate daily actives reasonably well (3m checkins / day)

Has anyone seen comparable numbers for Facebook Places? I used to be a Foursquare junkie, but when FB Places came out I pretty much stopped using the app...

I'm a user. I checked in once six months ago and haven't opened the app since.

I don't know 1 person personally who uses it. Must be a valley thing?

I call bullshit.