Foursquare Now Lets You Check In To Official Events, But You Still Can?t Create An Official Event Yourself

Foursquare has announced today that people can now check into events officially, which is weird because people have actually (unofficially) been checking into events for a long time. I mean just look at NYC Mayor Bloomberg's check in to something called Marriage Equalitocalypse. Conceptually the "hack" is easy enough for a politician to do -- Just creating an event masquerading as a venue. In fact, I am checked into an unofficial event right now.

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