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Foursquare data reveals 73% of venue visits are to previously visited places
“We've seen that 73% of the time a person is going to a place that they've already been to, or 62% of the time they're going to a place that someone in their social network has been to before.”
Faking Foursquare accounts with verified GPS trails and social graphs remains difficult
“It's really hard to fake a user with a, like, verified GPS trail going to a business, like, and having these real friends on a social network. You know, like, that's just, it's a very hard thing to fake at the moment, although I, I'm upset to say that, because…”
Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins
“We're, we have over forty million registered users. We're aware of fifty-five million places all over the world. We've collected 4.5 billion check-ins. And we get about six million check-ins per day.”