Foursquare Day checks in
What’s great about the internet is that all it takes is an idea and a blog post for something clever to become global. That’s what happened less about a month ago when Dr. Nate Bonilla-Warford decided to create an event called “Foursquare Day” to bring traffic into his business. Within days, people picked up on the idea and it soon became a global phenomenon, getting the attention of BBC America, Fox Tampa, and even Ashton Kutcher. We interviewed Dr. Nate for Geekistry a few weeks ago. You can read the story about how Foursquare Day came to be here.
The idea caught on so much that Foursquare decided to make a badge just for today. According to the 4sqday.com site, in order to get the badge, you need to simply do a shout from the Foursquare app but what we’re not certain about is whether you need to add #4sqday to your shout to get it. I got mine using the hashtag. Other fun things to do include a puzzle finder in the Tampa Bay area, checking in at McDonalds, and swarm challenges.
We’ll be updating this article as the day progresses, bringing updates about how people are getting together to celebrate. You cal also check out the 4SQDay Flickr group.
Click here to see all of our Foursquare Day coverage.
Disclaimer: Geekistry is a sponsor of 4sqday.com, but we’re writing this because it’s damn fun geeky, social media thing to do….which is why we’re sponsoring it in the first place. -MG
Category: Social Media
