This week, Industrial Color is looking for a video editor, while Plumbee is on the hunt for a head of mobile. The Game Show Network is in need of a senior QA engineer of mobile games, and Mobile Deluxe is seeking an art director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

• Video Editor Industrial Color (New York, NY)
• Head of Mobile Plumbee (London, England)
• Senior QA Engineer, Mobile Games Game Show Network (Waltham, MA)
• Art Director Mobile Deluxe (Santa Monica, CA)
• PR Account Executive for Luxury Travel Nike Communications (New York, NY)
• Sales Acquisition Executive – Digital Advertising The Washington Post (Culver City, CA)

For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.

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New privacy legislation proposed in the European Union will require Twitter, Facebook, Google and other mega internet companies to delete all user data if that user wishes it deleted – or else face hefty fines.
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In January 2011, Twitter wrote a fairly inspiring blog post entitled The Tweets Must Flow.

In the entry, crafted by Twitter co-founder (and then creative director) Biz Stone and general counsel Alex Macgillivray, wrote about the importance of preserving “the open exchange of information”, and that “almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right”.

Now, in a new update to this policy, Twitter appears to have done a one-eighty on its stance towards freedom of expression, as the platform now has the facility to withhold tweets from users in an entire, specified country – while keeping that content available to the rest of the world.

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It’s very easy to think that the joys of Twitter are limited to the USA, UK and Western Europe, but the microblogging platform is making inroads in almost every country all around the world.

Take Africa, for example. How well has Twitter been adopted there? A new study has taken a closer look at tweeting across the world’s second-largest continent, and discovered that it’s a lot bigger than you probably thought.

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We’re all used to seeing the nice, straight lines of transit maps, showing us where the buses and subways travel and when they stop. But how do people actually use these transit vehicles?

An intrepid graphic designer decided to answer this question by plotting tens of thousands of tweets around cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago, and discovered that not all cities are actually providing transit where people are traveling.
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Twitter Island exists, and its topography is unlike anything we’ve seen. It has peaks and valleys, and a massive, pointy mountain smack dab in the middle.

OK, so you can’t actually go to Twitter Island, but you can take a look at it on a map and in 3D.
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Late last year, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi Arabian businessman and the founder and CEO of Kingdom Holding, invested $300 million in Twitter. And he spoke to CNN this week about why he chose Twitter to add to his growing portfolio of tech companies.
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Vice President Joe Biden will be taking your questions today – as long as they’re 140 characters or less.
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Did you know that consumers spend one out of every five minutes online using social media and blogs?

That number isn’t stagnant, either – it’s growing – and consumers are proving themselves to be very social buyers. A full 60 percent of people learn about a brand directly through social media when researching a product via three or more digital means.

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The growth of social media is pretty astonishing.

Not only has it happened almost overnight – both Twitter and Facebook fully opened their doors to the general public less than six years ago – but the rate at which users and brands have adopted and embraced these channels into their personal and professional lives is incredible – and it’s not showing any signs that it’s slowing down.

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