Mfarhanonline Social Media News: Foursquare has launched a new Facebook integration that puts a checkin scorecard on Timelines. The new integration rolled out this week and was recently demoed at a Facebook event in Austin during South by Southwest . “Foursquare has obviously already been on Facebook for a while,” explains Foursquare project manager Noah Weiss. “What this does is add structure.” Users who connect their Foursquare accounts to their Facebook accounts will see a new Foursquare Timeline module that displays recent checkin activity as well as total checkins and top places for the month. It looks like this: When checkins appear in the Newsfeed, they’ll be plotted on a map and include other friends that are checked in at the same location. Here’s how that will look: Photos posted with Foursquare checkins will also get some Facebook exposure. This is how they’ll look in the Newsfeed: Facebook removed its mobile-only checkin feature in August and revamped its location function so that it works more like a tag on status updates, photos or wall posts. The switch makes Facebook less competitive with checkin services like Foursquare and a better platform for such services to integrate with. How do you like the new Foursquare integration? Let us know in the comments. More About: Facebook , foursquare Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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