AFL stadiums, fields and ovals on FourSquare
I’ve been obsessed with foursquare for about a month now. I love it because I like the idea of earning things, like badges. It gives my social media experience more meaning as a result. (It doesn’t really, I just think it does because I’ve earned these badges.) In May, I shall be seeing an AFL game in Canberra and I really want to check in to the stadium because yay! More checkins. This peaked my curiosity as to how many people had already checked in to this venue (Answer? None.) and in to other AFL stadiums across the country. Today, I got a list of AFL stadiums from austadiums and then searched for the facilities with those names on Foursquare. Having done that, I got the following chart, which not surprisingly shows the most checkins at Melbourne based AFL stadiums.
For clarification, if a line is blank and has no url, I searched for the location in the city listed on austadiums and nothing appeared. Duplicate entries appear when there were duplicates for the same location. Type includes the default listing. If no type is listed, none provided on the listing.
Apparently, Essendon was heavily promoting people checking into the MCG on Foursquare on ANZAC day so that people could get the Swarm badge. That could also account for the really high numbers of the Melbourne Cricket Grounds.
Great work Laura, really well done.
Good to see MCG leading the way in Foursquare. I'd expect more swarm badges to be awarded at sports venues like at #anzacswarm.
http://www.sportsgeek.com.au/socialmedia/swarm-...
Here's hoping it takes off in Australia like in the US.
I didn't know about that before I looked at your Twitter feed… I think it might take off in Australia… In Canberra, there appear to be a fair number of places, including multiple shops in the mall. What they really need is to get cell phone companies to promote it like they do Twitter and Facebook.
(Though Twitter in Australia might have taken off like the USA… I don't think that Australian athletes have caught up the same way. They don't verify their accounts.)