Klout will be acquired by Lithium Technologies according to multiple reports. While that's cool for a lot of reasons (most of which have to do with Lithium's B2B product), we know that there is going to be roughly twelve billion posts on the subject in the coming days. Those posts will probably talk a lot about the Klout score and not a lot about the transformation happening in social marketing. That's for another day, though.

LinkedIn announced last week they would be acquiring Bright in the company's largest acquisition to date. Twitter stock was reported last week as falling heavy and fast. We're also watching the Olympics unfold on social and all of this buzz has us thinking about social trends for the year.