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Foursquare records check-ins from every country in the world, and also 1 from space

Foursquare users checked in over 380,576,305 times in 2010, including once from the International Space Station, the company announced today.

Describing 2010 as “an insane year” the three year old smartphone social network released some information (in infographic form, of course) about their userbase. Among the more interesting facts released today are:

The blog post also reports that every country in the world (that’s 203 at the last count) has checked in, with North Korea being the last to register.

All of these boosted Foursquare’s user base by 3,400% in 2010.

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Ajit Jain

Ajit Jain is marketing and sales head at Octal Info Solution, a leading iPhone app development company and offering platform to hire Android app developers for your own app development project. He is available to connect on Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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