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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis.

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

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Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members). Facebook Sharpening the Knife You may remember that Twitter refused Facebook’s $500 million buyout offer last September. Check ( Facebook Lite ).