Foursquare Check-Ins Now Integrated With Facebook Timeline Map

Filed as News on May 15, 2012 1:31 pm

Foursquare users checking in with Facebook permissions synced to their accounts will now find their check-ins plotted across their Facebook Timeline maps thanks to deeper integration announced by the location based service on Tuesday.

Until this point in time only Facebook check-ins and Instagram geo-tagging options were plotted on the Facebook Timeline maps.

Using the program means integrating your Foursquare account with Facebook and then simply checking in at which point your locations will be plotted on the Facebook Timeline map using standard pin placements.

Facebook and Foursquare have also made it so check-ins already map have been updated to mapped out pinned location markers. 

Integration in a key component of Foursquare’s growth strategy as the company now has more than 20 million users and various partners ranging from big box customers such as American Express to small mom and pops stores who use the s

 

ervice to offer coupons and other special offers to customers in their area.

Do you think Foursquare check-in integration with Facebook Timeline maps will get more people interested in the new location based services option?

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