It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to social media or a savvy, seen-it-done-it-all veteran – when it comes to setting up a new Twitter Profile or Facebook Page, working out the heights and widths of all those images you positively need to make your channels look fantastic is a time-consuming and, unfortunately, regrettably forgettable business.

And what about those other social platforms, such as Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube? Wouldn’t it be really convenient if somebody put all this information within one, easy-to-read image?

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Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a look at 10 mistakes that you might be making on Twitter, a visual that reveals the marketing benefits of social media, news that Vine has surpassed Instagram for shares on Twitter, an update on the top 10 most-followed people on Twitter and how brands can convert the 7 types of social media fan into customers.

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A new study conducted by University of Michigan researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and Sara Konrath found that social media reflects and amplifies the culture’s growing levels of narcissism.

In the words of the researchers, “Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone.”

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The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was the big tech story of the week, with the unveiling of iOS7, a new Mac Pro, new AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule devices, and a brand new Apple music product: iTunes Radio.

But, as VentureBeat pointed out, one detail overlooked in much of the coverage of iTunes Radio is that the service includes a Twitter #music trending station.

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This week, SumAll.org is hiring a creative engineer, while TASC needs a web communications manager. SNAP Interactive is seeking a social media manager, and Kensington Publishing is on the hunt for a social media specialist. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.

• Creative Engineer SumAll.org (New York, NY)
• Web Communications Manager TASC (New York, NY)
• Social Media Manager SNAP Interactive (New York, NY)
• Social Media Specialist Kensington Publishing (New York, NY)
• Lead Writer/Editor Inside Network (San Francisco, CA)

Find more great social media jobs on our 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.

New York-based startup Dataminr has secured $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms to continue its work mining Twitter for tradable news.

The fundraising round is Dataminr’s third since its founding in 2009 by former Yale University classmates Ted Bailey, Jeff Kinsey and Sam Hendel.

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Twitter has once again teamed up with Vizify, launching #FollowMe, a video tool that enables users to instantly create an animated portrait of their Twitter profile.

Each shareable movie depicts that user’s top tweets, photos and followers, set to a soundtrack pulled from a 1-million-song-strong catalogue provided by partner Rumblefish.

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In less than a decade social media has infiltrated almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives, and with each new month brings a new feature, a new must-have tool, and, as often as not, a brand-new platform, to this veritable smorgasbord of digital connectivity.

Have you ever stopped to think what it might be doing to our psyche, both collectively and as individuals?

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Google earned more than half of the $8.8 billion spent worldwide by advertisers on mobile internet ads in 2012, giving the search giant a 52.36 percent share of global ad revenue.

This year, both the global mobile ad market and Google’s share therein is expected to almost double, with eMarketer forecasting mobile internet ad revenues of $8.85 billion for Google in 2013 from $15.82 billion overall, far ahead of second-placed Facebook, which is tipped to earn $2.04 billion (12.9 percent share).

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A true sign of the times: the Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its entries for follow (verb), follower (noun), and tweet (noun and verb) to include the social media senses of the words.

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