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Foursquare Day Festivities


There's no doubt that social media, and more specifically location based services, have had a major impact on our lives. We love to share - what we're doing, where we are, what's on our minds. There are many applications out there that provide such services with their own unique twist, but not every one of them has it's own day.

Foursquare Day (4sqday) is recognized by foursquare users as a day each year to get out, explore the neighborhood, and have some fun. It is held each year on April 16th, because that is 4/16 on the calendar and 4 squared is 16.

The first 4sqday was in 2010 when users in Tampa, FL started blogging and tweeting about the idea. You can read about that here. The idea went viral and in only 3 weeks with nearly 300 communities participating. While 4sqday has been officially recognized by foursquare, it is a grass-roots effort directed by the users.

(Founder of Foursquare Day, Nathan Bonilla-Warford)

Here at Untappd, foursquare is an integral part of our application when it comes to adding and sharing the location of your check-ins. There's no way we could let 4/16 go by without celebrating. To show our thanks and appreciation to the foursquare community, we have created a special Foursquare Day badge for our users to unlock. In order to earn this badge, you must check-in with a location and share that location to your linked foursquare account from Untappd on Saturday, April 16th. To link your foursquare account, head over to your account settings page and click the link "Login with foursquare" under the social account section.

Additionally, we thought it would be in the spirit of location discovery to create a Foursquare Day landing page that will show you where our users are checking in with foursquare, around the world. You can see this at http://untappd.com/4sqday11.

Be sure that when 4/16 rolls around, you get out and discover some great new bars and brew pubs, and of course, check-in.

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:03:32 +0000

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