Foursquare Adds Almost 100,000 Users in 10 Days

Foursquare mightve been last years breakout app at SXSW, but it looks like this year had a much more profound impact on the services growth. The location based network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon that its added almost 100,000 users in the past 10 days.

Thats a huge number when you consider that the year-old company reported having over 500,000 users less than a week ago. Anecdotally, I can also tell you that the surge in friend requests received over the past several days roughly lines-up with the numbers that Foursquare is reporting in other words, my network seems to be growing proportionally to Foursquare on the whole.

Foursquare also reported a record check-in day over the weekend, with 347,000 of them taking place on Saturday, a surge also fueled in large part by SXSW... [via Mashable]