Twitter is a great place to witness celebrity meltdowns firsthand, but it’s also a great place for them to make connections. And for musicians, this is helping more of them leap right past that “awkward introduction” phase straight to “let’s collaborate!”
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

You’re going to think this is too good to be true or a ploy to get you to read this piece, but it isn’t.

What would you say if I told you that students could win tuition grants and help out the charity of their choice by playing games online? Old news – gamers win money every day, right? Well, we’re not talking hardcore ‘gamer type’ games here. These are just regular, ‘anyone can play them’ type games. Your grandma could play them (more on that later).

If you’re a student, or if you know one, you’ll want to check this out. Students are winning between $50 to $5,000 a pop and it’s completely free to play.
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This week, Jellyvision Games is hiring a software engineer, while PopCap Games needs a UI lead. Socialdealer is on the hunt for a senior .NET developer and TinyCo is seeking a C++ game engineer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

• Software Engineer Jellyvision Games (Chicago, IL)
• UI Lead PopCap Games (San Francisco, CA)
• Senior .NET Developer Socialdealer (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
• C++ Game Engineer TinyCo (San Francisco, CA)
• Product Manager – Bubble Island Wooga (Berlin, Germany)

Find more great Twitter-related jobs on the AllTwitter job board. Looking to hire? Tap into our network of talented AllTwitter pros and post a risk-free job listing. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.

The much-lauded Twitter-based hedge fund by Derwent Capital Markets only traded for a single month before the company shut down all tweet-based operations – but they’re not done with Twitter yet.
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Those still receiving daily Summify emails – which compile the top social posts from Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader – will have to start looking for a new way to curate their social feeds: Summify is shutting its doors on June 22, just five months after being acquired by Twitter.
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Are you traveling this Memorial Day weekend? Planning to do a little shopping, too?

You’re not alone. IBM’s Social Sentiment Index, which aggregates public opinion from Twitter, blogs, message forums and other social media channels, has revealed a 46 percent increase in the amount of conversations about Memorial Day travel over last year.

And there’s good news for retailers, too – the ratio of positive to negative comments about shopping this weekend is up five fold on 2011.

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Did you know that more than three quarters (77 percent) of customers have said that they would buy more from their favourite brands if the company’s CEO was tweeting?

It’s a no-brainer. CEOs and other business leaders who show that they both understand and embrace modern technologies set a fine example to their workforce and their consumers. Plus, they’ll position themselves to be better informed about what social media can do for their organisation and whether their employees are using these tools productively (or simply wasting time).

So why is study after study showing CEOs being so frustratingly reluctant to get on board?

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We all know that attention spans are shrinking and traditional book sales are declining, but are we really at the point where people want to read a book posted one tweet at a time?

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is counting on it – and plans to begin publishing her newest novel, Black Box, on Twitter this week.
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With so much going on about the Facebook IPO, we thought now would be a good time to consider (speculate) what Twitter’s IPO would be worth – if and when they ever go that route, of course. As we recently told you, Twitter’s CEO, Dick Costolo, doesn’t anticipate this happening any time soon. But one never knows what can happen next in this crazy tech bubble kinda world we’re living in, now do we?
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Do you have trouble remembering all of the people you meet or do you struggle to connect who someone is offline with who they are online? Or maybe you help folks make professional connections – or just want to keep track of the introductions you’ve made for future reference? There’s an app for that.

#Hashable allows you to “easily save and remember everyone you meet, send biz cards, keep track of meetings and interactions, anchor connections with reminders and notes” and, if you’re competitive, try to accumulate the most Hashcred on the leaderboard. Read more