Ahead of Swarm’s release next week, Foursquare freezes mayors ‘for the time being’ and drops ousting feature

Foursquare today revealed more details about its service split into its existing app and its new Swarm app, which it now says is coming “next week.” In short, the mayor feature that gamified Foursquare is being cut down to a minimum and transferred over to Swarm. Starting today, there will be no more ousting of mayors in the Foursquare app and current mayors will be frozen in place “for the time being.” The list of proud mayorships you hold will continue to be displayed on your profile, though the company wouldn’t say how long this would last before the feature...



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