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My first year on foursquare [Infographic]

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By on February 8th, 2011

Today marks the one year anniversary of my first checkin on foursquare. I fell in love with the service almost immediately and it’s been a pretty wild ride ever since. Foursquare has grown tremendously and this blog has grown right along with it. Thanks to foursquare, I’ve met lots of great people all over the world and I’d like to thank each of you for your support.

Inspired by foursquare’s 2010 recap, I decided to create an infographic of my own. So without further ado — and with sincere apologies to foursquare designer Matthew Healy — here’s my first year on foursquare (click for a larger view).

[INFOGRAPHIC] My first year on foursquare

  • David rosen

    Nice job Chris, love it!

  • http://AntsOnWheels.com Aleksander Soender

    116 visits at Dunkin’ Donuts – wow. Nice design

  • http://casthompson.com casthompson

    Congrats Chris. I think that it’s cool that you’ve been to MAC more times than Chipolte. :)

  • http://mrshri.com Mr.Shri

    Sweet! Even I want one… foursquare should let us all create one.

    • Rudyn

      My first checkin was on March 13 2009

  • http://www.comunicatestesso.com/ michela

    great job Jess3! just one question: is your cholesterol ok after all those burritos? :D

    • Chris Thompson

      JESS3 is a great sponsor of the blog, but they didn’t create the graphic. I was all on my own on that one! :) And, no, I’m sure it’s not.

    • Ching-Yao Yu

      I don’t think Chris unlocked the “Gym Rat” badge. Just kidding, Chris. Don’t fire me from the podcast! :-D

      • Chris Thompson

        No, I keep getting to 8 or 9 times in a month and then something happens that screws up those last few visits. :)

  • akaCarioca

    Hey congrats on that!

  • http://about.me/spamspam Spam

    Nicely done, Chris! Are these the stats for the About Foursquare account, your personal one, or both combined?

    • Chris Thompson

      Just my personal account.

  • Keegan

    How do I make an info graphic like this from my account – I’m coming up on my 1 year as well?

  • http://smalltownbigcincy.wordpress.com Rachel

    Now if only we knew how to make one ourselves ;) ;)

    • http://smalltownbigcincy.wordpress.com Rachel

      Or at least the template/ where the hell did you find all the info?! I wish 4sq gave us the year option, or something more than a month in our stats

  • http://www.twitter.comelfenix3000 elfenix3000

    Great! Everyone wants a info like this jaja. Happy 4sqBD!

  • http://Ryangraves.org Ryan Graves

    Nice work on the info graphic, who designed it? It’s a beaut!

    • Chris Thompson

      I did it, with obvious design “inspiration” from the foursquare 2010 infographic.

  • Ann

    awesome infographic :D

  • bkdelph

    love the chart design!

  • Gordon Werner

    How do you know what your user number is?

    • http://AntsOnWheels.com Aleksander Soender

      I was wondering about that too

    • http://robert.aitchison.org Robert Aitchison

      I can tell on my Android App, Check “Settings” then choose “Profile”

      Mine is 844238.

    • molly

      Login in on the website & hit the “me” tab. you’ll see: http://foursquare.com/user/xxxxxx.

      • http://robert.aitchison.org Robert Aitchison

        That doesn’t work for everyone, in my case the “Me” tab is: http://foursquare.com/raitchison

        Maybe has something to do with when you registered?

      • Chris Thompson

        If you’ve linked your account to Twitter, you no longer go by your user number, but your Twitter name instead.

  • DB

    What is the badge between the baggage handler badge and the (Red) badge? It’s yellow-orange with a hand and some animal in the palm?

    • DB

      Actually, what is the badge right above that, too? The orange one with the hand and the bird.

  • Lindsay Anne

    Do they have something equivalent to the Eagle Scout level? If so, you’ve finally made it!! Mom will be proud. :) This is actually really cool!

  • http://robert.aitchison.org Robert Aitchison

    My 1 year is coming up in April, I should do something like this (but I probably won’t)

  • LiteSalt

    Looks like you got tired of Healthmonth’s BS before getting all four badges (just like I did) lolol

    Also don’t see a Runkeeper Overachiever badge – mine wouldn’t unlock either.

    Moral of the story? Third-party app badges (except for the Waze Road Warrior) SUCK.

    • http://www.foursquare.com/npyskater Gregorio Feliciano

      I got it. :P

  • http://foursquare.com/user/kvdun Kevin

    Cool that you can see you’re User ID so you know wich number you are! It is also viewable in the iPhone app. Under ‘Profile, settings, account details’. Mine is 61391

  • Michael

    50146. That makes me a huge dork!

    I love this. And I agree that Foursquare needs to add a check-ins for the year function.

    • http://4sqbc.com Brian

      Mine is 33318. Even though my 4sq anniversary is this Friday, I had registered well before I had a device that could make good use of it (and when you could only pick a handful of cities).

  • http://smalltownbigcincy.wordpress.com Rachel

    OK Chris where did you get all your info from? Did you manually go back in your history?

  • van

    That’s awesome. Wish I had the patience/skills to do that.

    P.S. My number is 312864.

  • Rudyn

    And so, I decided to make one for the first time…

    http://on.fb.me/eeVdVl

  • Shyam

    Awesome infographic! My number is 236281 !

  • http://welcometojmart.com Josh M

    Great job on the infographic!

  • M4RKM

    I feel slightly archaic with user number 111382

    i may make my own infographic now… hmmm..

  • http://www.allankintz.com ack154

    Just throwing mine on this pile of crazy…

    I went a different way completely as far as the look is concerned – but here it is:

    http://www.allankintz.com/2011/02/11/theyre-all-the-rage-these-days/

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  • http://lucadelladora.com Luca2D

    Great job! I’ve really appreciated it…and I’ve drawn my own, inspiring to yours. :)

    Here it is:

    http://lucadelladora.com/il-mio-2010-su-foursquare-in-un-infographic/

    (there is an italian and an english version)

    I felt a bit “amazed” going back til january 2010 and exactly remember a moment thanks to the link offered by the checkin in a venue. :)

    Thank you for inspiring me. :)

    :)

  • http://foursquare.com/eliotpayne Eliot

    What I’d like to know is how you can possibly eat at Moe’s nearly as many times as Chipotle. It’s not even a contest which is better!

    • Chris Thompson

      I agree. What I didn’t mention is that of the 74 burrito checkins, 25 were at Moe’s, but the other 45 were spread across 5 different Chipotles :) The one with 29 just happens to be the one I visit most often.

      • http://foursquare.com/eliotpayne Eliot

        Whew. That’s comforting. If I ever moved back to Cincy, I think that would revive my strong competition between Chipotle and Skyline.

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