Coordinating your friends for a night out in any city can be chaotic. The texts and phone calls required to get everyone at the same place at the same time can get tiresome. Luckily, as Apple says, there’s an app for that.
Mobile geolocation app Foursquare allows users to “check in” wherever they are, sending a notice to friends and online followers. Ideally, friends can then potentially catch up with each other during a night out.
Though the app is primarily used to for the purpose described above, the site Social Great has tapped-in to the data trail left by all those check-ins to compile the city’s top venues visited by Foursquare users, which typically tend to be young, tech-savvy folks with smartphones. (A bit of a disclaimer: Social Great only counts check-ins from people that have signed up for its service, so its not a scientific representation of all Foursquare users.)
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Philly Post: Philly's Top 10 Tech-Savvy Hotspots
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