Foursquare's 'Super Bowl Sunday' Venue Passes 200,000 Check-Ins

Foursquare's Super Bowl Sunday experiment is underway and the check-ins are coming in fast.

Approximately 30 minutes before kickoff, the geo-based social networking service had received more than 30,000 check-ins for "Super Bowl Sunday." It encouraged users to shout "Go Packers!" or "Go Steelers!" along with the check-in to receive a special team badge.

UPDATE (6:40 p.m. ET): The venue passed 40,000 check-ins at kickoff. (7 p.m. ET): It's now passed 60,000 check-ins. (8:40 p.m. ET): 115,000 check-ins. (9:30 p.m. ET): 150,000. (10 p.m. ET): At the game's conclusion, the venue hit 180,000 check-ins. (11 p.m. ET): People are still checking in and there are now 200,000 check-ins.

It's one of the first times Foursquare has experimented with nationwide check-ins. Typically, the service is restricted to venues by geography.

TechCrunch reports that Foursquare is testing Super Bowl Sunday as a "promoted venue" with the NFL, though it's just a trial and not a paid sponsorship.

Will Super Bowl Sunday become the most checked-in "venue" of all time? It has its work cut out for it, as the San Francisco International Airport has 199,000 check-ins. But it's certainly possible.

Have you checked in yet? Find the Super Bowl Sunday Foursquare page here.

Comments

[llabesab1234]

02:00 AM on 02/07/2011

200,000 people who just adore so-called 'sport" which glorifies womanizers; pimps; rapists; sires-not fathers-of multiple children via multiple women; "pistoleros" who, literally, shoot themselves in the hips and feet; abusers/killers of dogs; and , players who love to see their pics on the walls of the local Post Office.

[steve11407]

12:36 PM on 02/07/2011

Glass half empty, huh...

[paulevansmedia]

12:53 AM on 02/07/2011

Too bad there was no hyperlink from the special ... Foursquare doesn't have the capability to do this, diminishing the conversion rate drastically. Users had to figure out how to save or copy the code before browsing over to the NFL site ....

[Anella Harmeyer]

11:49 PM on 02/06/2011

I checked in. Got a Steelers badge.

[llabesab1234]

02:03 AM on 02/07/2011

Too bad your not one of the Steeler Quarterback's abused women--or maybe you are and you dig it!

[JustVisitingEarth]

09:33 PM on 02/06/2011

Honestly, who gives a rats. Go talk to a girl or something.

[GeorgieL]

11:42 PM on 02/06/2011

200,000 people.

Apparently.

[Jonathan D Woodyard]

07:22 PM on 02/06/2011

I just checked into "Super Bowl Sunday" on @foursquare. Watching the #SuperBowl in Nuremberg, Germany. Green & Yellow Go Packers!