If the reception is positive, Foursquare could turn the tech into a service that developers could query to build something similar. Priya Kumar, a privacy researcher and tech ethicist, says Foursquare should have been more respectful of users before rolling out a potentially controversial feature like Hypertrending. But with Hypertrending, Foursquare takes a step in that direction anyway. Are they into this? We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. One of the best things about the old Foursquare has made its way back to Swarm: mayorships. You can now compete with users everywhere for the most check-ins at any business listed in the app, earning badges and bragging rights in the process. It's a surprisingly addicting feature that once made Foursquare feel much more like a real competition or game between everyone in your city — before the company split into two apps , that is.
But Foursquare has heard user feedback and steadily recovered from that rocky relaunch. Both apps have seen iterative improvements in recent months, and in May Foursquare confirmed that it would soon restore global mayorships to Swarm. Updates for both Android and iOS have officially arrived, and you'll likely discover that your recent check-ins already count toward earning you that coveted spot and mayor's crown. The news comes as Foursquare— a company still searching for its identity —gears up to split its core services with the introduction of Swarm next week.
What is it? Swarm is a new location-sharing spin-off app for iOS and Android that tells your friends where you are; the main Foursquare app will be rededicated to local recommendations, similar to Yelp. When Swarm is introduced, it will include a new feature called Mayors 2. With these new mayorships, if you and a couple friends have been checking in to a place, the person who has been there the most lately gets a crown sticker.
Points gave you a way to measure how exciting your outings were; badges were to give you a sense of accomplishment; and mayorships allowed you to compete with your friends.
We thought they were all fun ideas, but even we were surprised by how much people loved them. Back in when we had 50, people using Foursquare, they were awesome. But as our community grew from 50, people to over 50,, today, our game mechanics started to break down:. Points became arbitrary and less reflective of real-world achievement, because a check-in at a concert in Istanbul is really different than one at a dog park in New York and the thousands of types of check-ins in between.
We created hundreds and hundreds of badges to appeal to different people around the world. Some of you want more, though we hear more often that badges stopped feeling special a long time ago.
Mayors were great when Foursquare was small and you were competing against your friends to rule the neighborhood coffee shop, but as more people signed up, earning a mayor crown became impossible.
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