Foursquare User Data: Archived Social Media Activity

Aggregating user profile records from the Foursquare platform, archived by jalbertbowden in October 2013. It preserves a historical snapshot of user data that was reportedly pulled offline from its original source, making it a legacy record of the service's early user base.

Use Cases

• Historical analysis of 2013-era user profiles to study early social media adoption
• Research into early location-based social network (LBSN) user identifiers
• Longitudinal studies of social media platform evolution using archived user records

Strengths

• Preserves data from a source that was removed from the live web
• Provides a 2013-era snapshot of location-based social network users

Limitations

• Complete lack of column headers or metadata documentation
• Significant temporal staleness exceeding 10 years
• Unknown sample size and potential geographic bias

Provenance

Source

Foursquare

Collection Method

Pulled from an offline source

Time Range

Pre-2013

Freshness

Stale; the dataset has not been updated since October 31, 2013.