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Geolocation Today continues a rundown of all of the Foursquare badges by covering the “Local” Badge.

How To Unlock It: Are you a big fan of local businesses? Well, in this case, you only have to be a fan of one venue. After checking into a venue three times in a week, you will receive the local badge, which rewards loyalty to a given venue.

Difficulty: Easy. You should have a favorite local hangout or venue that you visit often. Through three visits in a week (not all that hard to accomplish), you can pick up a badge that should be a part of everyone’s badge set.

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Geolocation Today continues their look at how to unlock all of the badges on the platform. Today, we have a look at how to acquire the “Superstar” badge.

How To Unlock It: Users who have checked in to 50 different venues will receive this badge. Only the most dedicated Foursquare users will be able to unlock this one. Like the Adventurer badge, it takes vigilant checkins over an extended period of time to unlock the badge.

Difficulty: Moderate. While 50 checkins is by no means anything that can be accomplished in a day or even a week, dedicated Foursquare users are likely to have no issues picking this badge up over an extended period of time.

Unlock the Superstar badge, and many people will be able to see that you check in to Foursquare early and often without fail. If you want to friend request active users, look out for this badge in the profile to prove their constant checkin activity.

Geolocation Today continues their reports on how to unlock all of the Foursquare badges on the platform.

The “Explorer” badge should be a straightforward badge pickup for users who have remained active on Foursquare.

How To Unlock It: 25 different location checkins will earn the user this badge.

Difficulty: Easy. Even Foursquare users in the smallest U.S. cities should have no problem checking into 25 different venues if they are vigilant with their checkins.

Conclusion: It’s highly likely that this will be the third badge that users pick up. Explorers are emerging Foursquare users and are more than worth following and/or friend requesting.

Geolocation Today continues reports on how to unlock all of the Foursquare badges on the platform.

The “Adventurer” badge, like the “Newbie” badge, is an easy badge to unlock.

How To Unlock It: After you total 10 checkins on the platform, you will be awarded the badge.

Difficulty: Very Easy. Even someone who checks in infrequently should have no problem picking this badge up for the collection.

Conclusion: This is a easy pickup for all Foursquare users and should be a part of every active users’ collection. For many users, it will be the second badge they pick up.

If you’re wondering just how often people check in using Foursquare, you’re in luck. The Square Grader website has posted the percentages, by badge, of people that have attained each badge.

Some of the percentages worth noting:

Newbie Badge (First Checkin): 98.59% of users

Superstar Badge (50 venues): 57.41% of users

Super User (30 checkins in a month): 77.38% of users

A full list of badges and percentages is available at the website. After a brief look at the percentages, it appears that most people are using Foursquare on a frequent basis.

Do you have a badge that no one else seems to have? The percentages can give you an idea of the rarity of the badge that you’ve acquired—perhaps you could use the website for bragging rights?

What are your thoughts on these percentage breakdowns?

Geolocation Today will be reporting on how to unlock all of the Foursquare badges that have been reported on the Internet as attainable.

The first badge that Geolocation Today will cover is the first one that all Foursquare users receive. The “Newbie” Badge is the easiest badge on the platform to unlock.

How To Unlock It: After you check in for the first time on Foursquare, you will be awarded the badge.

Difficulty: Very Easy. If you create a Foursquare account and check in once, you will have this badge to show for your effort!

Conclusion: As someone who has taken time to read this post, I hope that if you haven’t already, you sign up for Foursquare and check in to one location! This is the first badge out of many on the platform, and hopefully after receiving this badge, you are motivated to continue checking in to earn more.

About a day ago, Foursquare announced via a tweet that 347,000 checkins were completed—even though the service was spotty for a brief time yesterday afternoon.

With thousands of people in the Austin, Texas area for the South By Southwest Conference, many users were able to acquire the Swarm badge, which is awarded when a user checks into a location where 50 or more people are checked in at the same time.

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