Foursquare appears to be winning the SXSW battle for supremacy against Gowalla, according to a trend forming in the stream of tweets we follow on Silicon Alley Insider.
On the right side of the site we have "The Hive." We follow hundreds of people in tech, take the headlines and links they're tweeting, collect them and rank them. (More explanation here.)
Tonight, we're seeing three of the five popular links getting posted to Twitter involve Foursquare. It's people checking into the Airport, Stubbs, and the Austin Convention Center on Foursquare. (Makes sense in that order, doesn't it?)
Gowalla is not cracking the top five.
Scientific fact, this isn't. We admit it. But it stood out as we're watching this battle.
We think one of these companies ends up successful like Twitter and the other ends up like Jaiku, or Pownce. Tonight it looks like Foursquare is Twitter.
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