Twitter will be acquired, most likely by a media company like CNN. Twitter has proven successful when coordinating closely with major events on television (e.g., With its new platform, Twitter is poised to make money. Social media technologies will start to consolidate and only the strong will survive: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Sorry, Foursquare, MySpace, Orkut, Gowalla, etc.). Social Media Uncategorized 2011 Social Media Predictions 2011 Social Media Trends Social Media TrendsInnovation will be stifled. Social search will flex its muscle. MORE >>

It’s all and well that Foursquare membership grew 3400% in 2010 but if people aren’t using the location-based service at venues where thousands of people converge, how notable is that statistic? Mathew Ingram elaborates : While 3,400-percent growth is nothing to sneeze at, there are still indications that Foursquare — and location-based services in general, including Facebook Places and Gowalla — have yet to make much of a mark on the public consciousness, even with regular Internet users. Connect: Twitter | Facebook | Email | 978.558.0008. Media Foursquare MORE >>

Even bigger than the larger crowds were the expectations many people had for startups targeting the show for major visibility and possibly, stardom on the level much glorified with Twitter 's rise to public awareness in 2007 and Foursquare's launch in 2009. Two years removed from their buzzy debut, Foursquare doubled down ahead of the SXSW event with version 3.0 For all the talk of group chat, it was Foursquare I saw picked up time and again from venue to venue, leading people to the next destination, to watch as party attendance rose and fell, or to see what was swarming. MORE >>

Tweet Foursquare has just announced on their blog that they have reached 10 million users, thus being the first location-based social network to do so. For Foursquare, it’s a major milestone to have 10 million users. To celebrate this milestone, Foursquare has created an animated infographic that shows a world map with the spread of users. The Growth of Foursquare In an Infographic. What People Love And Hate On Twitter [infographic]. Social Media Social Network Foursquare Infographic LBS locationbased service milestone statistics MORE >>

Read on for answers to these questions and more from some of the best minds in social media in some of their best blog posts and articles of 2011 so far. The always-insightful Adam Holden-Bache contends that location-based services like Foursquare aren’t just for consumer marketers, and supplies ideas on how B2B marketers can capitalize such as through partnerships with non-competitive local businesses, incentives and rewards, and in event marketing (“Are you seeing a lot of your contacts attending certain business events? What should I monitor for? What to do? But 44.24 MORE >>