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While trying to decide what seat I should use on public transportation this weekend, I joked about the “next big thing” in location-based check ins — that is, foursquare at its most atomic unit: Checking into seats on buses or cubicles in the office, etc. Apparently, I am not the only person with hyper-localization on the brain as Twitter has hinted towards making moves to aggregate content discovery through micro-location as well....

It was really just a hockey game. Certainly it was the biggest hockey game of the National Hockey League season, but the riot it has spawned in Vancouver makes it look like something far more politically charged may be the cause. And Twitter is playing a big part in reporting this riot, and may even be able to help local police catch some of the culprits. The riot erupted as soon as the final horn sounded to end game seven of the Stanley Cup final, where the Boston Bruins defeated the hometown Vancouver Canucks 4-0....

SocialBro, an excellent service for getting a deep understanding of your Twitter community, has just launchedas a Google Chrome app. We firstreviewedSocialBro back in July when it was only available as an Adobe Air app. At the time we were impressed by just how much understanding you could gain about the people you follow and who follow you. Via slider controls, graphs and pie charts, data as diverse as the languages used, timezones, locations and usage patterns of all, or a subsection of the community can be quickly uncovered....

For any startup only a few months old, hitting one millionanythingis an enormous statistic to be proud of. Such is the case forBufferwhich, as of yesterday, has just reached their biggest milestone to date: one million Tweets queued up and buffered. The masterminds behind the application: Founded in October 2010 by CTO and Co-Founder ofOnePage, Joel Gascoigne has been coding since the age of 12 and has built Buffer from the ground up....

The latest updates to the officialTwitter client for iOSincluded a notification bar known as the QuickBar. While it might have been handy, many people were up in arms by having it be constantly in view. In short, it just came out as annoying. Today, in view of that Twitterhas releasedanother version, with the bar removed. Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today....