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That is not a graph of the Foursquare app's popularity. It's a graph of Google searches. It was in trouble before it split the apps.

Lots of searches are driven by news stories, including bad news stories. For example the marker D is a story about how Foursquare resorted to raising debt financing to avoid a down round. It's a mistake to label that "SUCCESS".




Here's an actual graph of Foursquare's popularity, showing growth in 2009: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallofhair/4232092914/


BTW, the first time I followed your link, Flickr redirected me to an ad for a Flickr app for an operating system I don’t use. You might want to find new hosting for your images.


> ..marker D is a story about how Foursquare resorted to raising debt financing to avoid a down round.

Keith Rabois has hinted that they did do a down round: http://jackgavigan.com/2013/03/17/foursquare-does-a-down-rou...




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