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What this mostly did for me was drive home the point that non-geeks don't really use Foursquare all that much. Kinda embarassing to notice that I know almost half of the people behind checkins in my little 80000 ppl town. Thanks for putting the foursquare hype in perspective for me.

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I think that is true to a large extent. I think it also shows that many people don't turn on location in twitter (as it is off by default this is no surprise)

We do think there is room for a location based service for sharing information that isn't about check-ins, and gaming mechanisms. That's what we're trying to do anyway...

Anytime! We think that foursquare is great but there is simply more scope for local information than just showing information about venues.

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