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Foursquare Down or Over Capacity
Update: The Foursquare team has posted a recap of what happened with the outage. Seems a lot of it revolves around the database provider they use – MongoDB.
Popular NY-based location-based service Foursquare is currently either down, servers are being upgraded or the service is over capacity depending on how you access the service. Twitter users are noting that they are unable to check in on their mobile devices and are receiving the “over capacity” error message. The Foursquare website shows the message below noting that they are currently upgrading the servers.
The Foursquare support Twitter account notes, “The servers are overloaded but we’re working on it! We will be back up ASAP. #caseofthemondays”.
I know when Twitter is down, we get on the Friendfeed bus. When Facebook is down, we take the train to MySpace. But where do we go when Foursquare is down?
Feel free to report in on how you are spending your time since you can’t currently accumulate badges for being the mayor of your favorite coffee shop or in at least one case, your BFFs car.
Update: 4:20pm Eastern - foursquare.com is still providing the message seen below.
Update 2 – We are hearing from many users (they want to remain anonymous) that they are staying at home until the service is restored. One user called us on our tips hotline noting that it just “isn’t worth going out if you can’t get a badge”.
Update 3: 7:45pm Eastern – Foursquare has been down over 6 hours now. I bought a pack of poster board and some felt – if you want a badge made, leave a comment with the type of badge you would like.
regaining my duchess-hood on yelp, duh
Just posted… must be fixed or at least for now!!
There’s something about Foursquare and other “tracking” sites that never really sat well with me. I guess I don’t like announcing to the world exactly where I am every hour. If I want you to know where I am, I’ll tell you.
I think I am going thru withdrawal, I haven’t been able to check in all day!
Just use Gowalla!
Damn it!… I have no reason to leave the house now…
[...] Stern had a rather funny take on the whole situation: We are hearing from many users (they want to remain anonymous) that they [...]
I went to my destination as originally planned, only this time unable to announce it to my Facebook friends who probably don’t care much anyway.
lol@AP. 4Square rocks! I hope they get back online soon!
John, You obviously don’t know anyone.
Tried logging in to fourquare and got not at capacity. Decided to google what that meant and was directed here.
Just use Gowalla.
They go to Yelp
Just tried to login, given the over capacity message so logged in on Yelp.
Noone I know uses foursquare.