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Twitter Adds Places To Its Geo-Tweets, Just Don’t Call It A Check-In
- faramarz 17y agoIf Foursquare or Gowalla want to stay on top of this game, they need to start partnering with pubs/restaurants or high-traffic franchises and start pushing event notifications to their users, rather then wait for them to check-in. The user still does their usual check-in wherever.. but if they’re in close proximity to Pub XYZ who has wings on special, an amber alert of sorts would start beaming on their device to let them know of the special. Therefore entice more check-in and revenue opportunity. I’ve had this idea in my head for a while.
- akl 17y agoFourSquare currently does this - they've been partnering with restaurants for some time: http://foursquare.com/businesses/ http://foursquare.com/businesses/ (large list of businesses and some info on the program) If you check in near a special, it'll tell you - also, if you check in near where your friend has left a 'tip', it will tell you as well. I don't know if Gowalla has any similar functionality.
- benofsky 17y agoI think this may be the beginning of the end of Foursquare and Gowalla, they're now fairly redundant. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook doesn't start doing geo-location soon too.
- seiji 17y agoThere's also a game and social validation aspect to those services. They aren't quite dead yet.
- bobwaycott 17y agoThis only further proves the volatility and risk inherent in trying to build a business and/or a service on top of someone else's bigger business and/or service.