Foursquare has a lot of potential, and most social media authorities project that location social networks, like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places, will experience huge growth in the next few years.

This infographic shows key Foursquare trends for 2010.

  • Foursquare has had 381 million check ins
  • Every country in the world has had a check in
  • Food/Restaurants is the most popular checkin category followed by work and office
  • Top check-in places skew towards NYC
  • There is a strong relationship between movie theatre checkins and release dates of popular movies
  • The most popular brand pages are entertainment related

foursquare 2010 infographic