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Think you’re the social media shiznit?
Put your money where your mouth is and toss your resume in the ring to go up against other communications pros for the ultimate social media position: tweeting about Twitter – for Twitter.
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Facebook product designer Nicholas Felton who was instrumental in the profile overhaul that became Timeline in 2011, announced today that he would be leaving the company after two years.
Felton joined the Facebook team through an acqui-hire deal of his company Daytum in April 2011. He is well known for his “Feltron Annual Reports,” which display detailed data about his personal activity and habits over the course of a year…

The HTC First, a smartphone preloaded with Facebook Home, is now for sale from AT&T. Facebook also updated Messenger for Android to include support for Chat Heads, the feature debuted with Home last week. Home is expected to be available from the Google Play store later today.
Home is an Android homescreen experience that more deeply integrates the social network’s features into Android devices…

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Early Bird Tickets on Sale
User reviews of Facebook Home, the social network’s new home screen feature for Android phones, are coming in pretty weak.
A day after Facebook released the software on Google Play, the app has garnered 2,219 reviews, with an average rating of 2…

Central and eastern Europe is surprisingly vibrant when it comes to startups and accelerators.
The Czech Republic scores highly on AngelList, and business accelerators are doing well in the country, managing to attract startups from elsewhere in the world. It has been a while since we covered startups hosted by local incubators…

While you’ve been busy updating your company’s Facebook page, keeping your customers up to date through Twitter and posting the latest corporate video on YouTube, we’ve been reporting on the latest in social media news for businesses large and small.
In case you’ve missed any of it, here’s a recap of this week’s breaking stories…

Schmap already helped advertisers and other companies understand their Twitter followers through its Know Your Followers product, but today it launched a new, upgraded service called Demographics Pro — CEO Paul Hallett described the concept as “Nielsen for Twitter.”
Nielsen does its own social media analysis, and it announced a partnership with Twitter last fall, but that was focused on measuring the social media impact of TV shows…

Jennifer Parris is the Career Writer for FlexJobs, an award-winning service that helps job-seekers find professional opportunities that offer work flexibility, such as telecommuting, freelance, part-time or alternative schedules. To learn more about Jennifer, visit FlexJobs.com or tweet @flexjobs.
Sure, it may not feel like it just yet, but spring is here…

Zuckerberg and tech elite create FWD.us – Mark Zuckerberg this week announced FWD.us, a political advocacy group to focus on the issue of immigration reform. The organization is backed by other tech leaders including Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Marissa Mayer, Drew Houston, Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, Joe Green, Jim Breyer, Matt Cohler, John Doerr, Paul Graham, Mary Meeker, Max Levchin, Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi…

For this year’s MTV Movie Awards, the judges are stepping aside and letting the viewers’ voice be heard: fans can now cast their vote via a Tweet. As movie buffs tune-in, they can also tweet-in as they vote, comment on their favorite acceptance speeches, share their picks for best dressed, or join the conversation as their favorite actors live-tweet the show…

Facebook is looking for a Public Content Partnerships Analyst, which could be related to a new push for more public content from users and popular figures.
The job description says, “The Public Content Partnerships team is looking for a business and data analyst with a passion for media, popular culture and social technology to help drive informed business decisions for Facebook…

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told us last year that serving small business is “just as important” as helping large advertisers achieve their goals. Since then we’ve seen the company make a number of changes to simplify Facebook marketing and advertising tools and conduct more outreach to help small and medium-sized businesses find value in the platform…

Fans who followed USA’s “Psych: The S#cial Sector” to its conclusion probably know whodunit, but they might not know who made the video storytelling platform that they used to help solve the mystery.  Meet Tracy Evans, co-creator and COO of Theatrics.
USA discovered Theatrics through its previous project, “Beckinfield,” an interactive sci-fi web series that launched in November 2010…