Foursquare, as a social media platform, has become somewhat obscured by the meteoric improvements to all its competitors while it has languished behind as glorified location game. Swarm by Foursquare is Foursquare’s new app and latest effort to improve its social network focus and its focus is on still using the existing Foursquare mantra of competing with others for location check-ins, but also allowing friends to be able to see each other when they are nearby for impromtu meetups.
Swarm’s focus is mainly on enabling you to communicate with friends that are nearby (and gives you an estimation of how close they are) and the people you want to stay in contact with; Swarm has a messaging system that will allow you to converse with groups of friends. Naturally, this is dependant on the friends that are actually using Swarm, but you will be able to add your Facebook friends through the sign-in feature.
If you want to try out Swarm now, you can download it from the Google Play Store now for free (link below). What do you think about the idea behind Swarm? Are you going to try it out? Let us know your opinion in the comments below.
Source: Phandroid
Application: Swarm
Price: Free
