Foursquare updates Swarm app on Android and iPhone with more stickers and better check-ins

Swarm, the standalone check-in app from Foursquare has received an update for its Android and iPhone apps. With an aim to spruce up your check-ins further, the app has been added with new stickers.

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Swarm check-in app lands on Windows Phone

Swarm, the new check-in app from Foursquare has now landed on Windows Phone. The app which was separated from Foursquare with some core feature was first announced in May. Windows Phone users can now access the Swarm app that is already available on Android and the iPhone.

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Foursquare’s new Swarm app is a social heat map of friend activity

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Foursquare has changed a lot. The popular location based social network has gone through several ideological changes in the past and it is at a point where data points to utter confusion for the consumer, as well as for the company, as to what Foursquare actually is. It was initially really popular for its “Check in”s and then the company slowly added more social components to its app, like a discovery engine, a friend feed and more. At this point in time, there are just too many components to the app, and hence the New York based start up has decided to un-bundle some of its core features into a separate app, called Swarm.

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