Foursquare and Gowalla? Not in MyTown…

This blows me away.  I’ve been researching, playing with, somewhat obsessing over location-based gaming, check-in apps for the last few months.  You can often find me standing outside of a place I’m about to enter, furiously opening apps, checking-in, and then firing up the next app so that I can check-in on many different systems.  Only way to learn about them is to dive in.

And yes, I’m locked into several “mayor” contests with folks, often resulting to dirty politics when necessary.

So I was shocked to see this article on TechCrunch about MyTown (passed to me by @kathlenehestir)and how its passed the biggies (Foursquare and Gowalla) in terms of users in little over a month!

Their secret?  Apple featured their app for two weeks.  Yep.  Just goes to show you that in the grand scheme of things, not many people are using these services yet.  Not to say I’m not a big believer in them, I sure as heck am!

Alright, gottta run, time to sign up for MyTown and add yet another check-in system to my routine…