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Gowalla Gone After Facebook Shutters It
- The Telegraph , Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3 AM
Three years after it launched at the South by Southwest conference in Texas, which ends today, the location-based social network is gone. The moble phone app, which reported 600,000 users a year ago, also launched the same day as Foursquare, which has enjoyed a much higher level of popularity. Facebook hired Gowalla’s founders and some staff to help build up its own location offering.
