New Flash @BrianSolis is alive

I loved the headline Brian used to talk about Twitter stats.. but thought I'd try to create my own here.. (sort of a market test.. I've already retweeted his version)

And this topic cries out for a little more discussion. Just what Amplify.com is great at. So take a look at all the stats from Edison report and Brian's take on them.. and let's have add our thoughts here.

My take.. Twitter is getting to be very well known, but clearly not as ubiquitous a Facebook or BREATHING.

What do you think? Will everyone tweet? Does Twitter work if you just log in once a week? (I know better than to suggest anyone use it as much as me

What would it be like all your friends were accessible by Twitter the way they are by phone?

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The best way to avoid getting caught on @Foursquare

A popular topic this week is the privacy settings on Foursquare and of course Place (from our favorite privacy whipping boys over at Facebook)

The tips are good, but they left out one that I guess people need to know. If you don't want to be known for going to a place, DON'T GO THERE!

And in the unlikely event that you just have to go someplace that you don't want to share.. the DON'T CHECK IN

I'm a FourSquare fan boy.. I can't explain the draw and yes, I do check in using "off the grid" quite often. At first, it was the game. Then I got bored with that and considered it research or a record of where I went for later datamining experiments.

Let's face it. I like sharing cool stuff and while I was SHOCKED when I first got a comment about an auto post that I was Mayor of the 98 cent dollar store.

But who knew.. there are other husbands dragged to stores and we had a nice chat

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It's hardly practical to believe there are "right" and "wrong" ways to employ social networking services like Twitter or Facebook. However, there are "smart" and/or "safe" methods of use, especially for location-based services (LBS) that identify your whereabouts at a given time, like popular social network/LBS Foursquare. Read more at www.pcworld.com

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What is your location marketing strategy?

I hope you aren't waiting to see if this locations stuff is going to take off.

It has.

What are you doing about it?

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Last week Forrester released a report advising most marketers wait to use location-based social networks (LBSN) as only 4% of the US population is currently using platforms such as Foursquare (the current market leader), and that the networks skew heavily male. They advise that brands that target young males experiment with the services and other brands adopt a “wait and see” approach. I couldn’t disagree more. Read more at www.onedegree.ca

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