foursquare Reaches 1M User Milestone

foursquare and 1 million users ago, the location-based social app reached a milestone, as TechCrunch reported that a user in Escondido, Calif., QuakeHOLD I., knocked foursquare’s user count into seven digits.

foursquare announced via Tweet Thursday that the number was approaching, Tweeting: “We’re closing in on 1 million users! Current count is 969,775. Looks like that’s we may have something to toast during Friday Happy Hour ”

According to TechCrunch, it took foursquare slightly more than one year to reach the 1 million mark, while it took Twitter some two years to reach the same figure.

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