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Screenshot  A user's Swarm profile holds all of their personal stats within the app, such as check-ins, mayorships, streaks, photos, and stickers they have unlocked. | |
| Developer(s) | Foursquare Labs |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 5, 2014 |
| Stable release(s) | |
| Platform | iOS, Android |
| Available in | 12 languages |
| Type | Social networking service |
| Website | www |
Foursquare Swarm is a mobile app that allows users to share their locations with their friends and create a record of their experiences in a personal lifelog. Swarm launched for iOS and Android devices on May 15, 2014. A spin-off from and companion app to Foursquare City Guide, Swarm allows users to check-in to a given location,[3] and see who is nearby.[4] These check-ins are chronologically listed to create a personal lifelog for each user, which serves as a digital library for all the places they have been, in a searchable database that can be revisited and shared.
Location and check-in data collected in Swarm are used to improve a user's recommendations in Foursquare City Guide. Splitting check-ins and general location sharing in to the separate Swarm app was designed to let the main Foursquare app focus on exploring and discovering information on locations, in a Yelp-like fashion.[5] Swarm supports checking in with photos or stickers attached to it, and allows broadcasting of check-ins to other social networks including Facebook and Twitter. Swarm features include a shareable interactive personalized map, and unique stats like total lifetime check-ins, number of unique categories visited, and data on streaks and Foursquare 'mayorships' (a feature of the platforms gamification elements).
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- ^ "Foursquare Swarm on the Play Store". Google Play. Google. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "Foursquare's Swarm App Tells Your Friends Generally Where You Are", Gizmodo, 2014-05-01
- ^ "Foursquare's Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App", TechCrunch, 2014-05-15
- ^ "Meet Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two", The Verge, 2014-05-01