Facebook iPhone App Gets Foursquare-Style Check-In Feature

Apparently a new version of the Facebook iPhone app should be available later today, and it’ll bring a new feature called Places. The feature basically sounds like a check-in function similar to that found in Foursquare and Gowalla. [TechCrunch]

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    Timmy Connor

    Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    Only for the USA right now :(

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      Matt Golding

      Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 2:23 PM

      not sure where you getting your info form Tim but my iPhone is telling me I have an update for facebook and I’m in Australia (using the aussie app store too)

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      Matt Golding

      Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM

      Okay I just installed it and when you click on Places it tells you that its not available in your region.

      Apologies

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        Timmy Connor

        Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 3:47 PM

        Yeah the update is good either way it seems to fix a few bugs in the iPhone app. Like the news feed.

        Wish they had gone global at launch, I want to play with it!

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    Nathan Millson

    Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    *cough* US only for now…

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    Dean

    Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM

    So I have a jailbroken US iPhone 4, running on Optus. This update was downloaded and installed, and now it won’t connect to anything. I see the new ‘Places’ icon, but if I go into the news feed, it fails to load, can’t open the inbox, nada. This sucks, I might actually have to find a life until its fixed!

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      Gavin

      Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 10:28 PM

      I’ve got exactly the same problem. I don’t think having an iPhone from the US is causing the problem, as I’ve got an Australian iPhone, my MSP being Optus, and trying to access anything on the Fb app gives me an error.

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    Neil

    Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:22 PM

    Guess it’s still to much to ask for a native iPad version!

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