CNBC is looking for a summer Social Media intern. For a glimpse at the fun you’ll have working with CNBC’s social media team, check out the newscast spoof produced by our 2012 interns.

If you’re interested in applying, tweet your application to @CNBCSocial. Be creative, and be sure to tweet in 140 characters or less!

The internship details and job description can be found below. (Note: CNBC’s internships are now paid internships.)

Duties & Responsibilities:

*Assist the social media team with daily updates of various social media feeds and platforms

*Generate new ideas for social media integration across all distribution platforms

*Stay on top of news and trends in social/new media

*Work with social media team on internal education and social media training projects

*General enthusiasm for #social!

Skills & Experience:

*In pursuit of an Associate, Bachelor or Graduate degree at an Accredited Institution

*Current class standing of sophomore or above (30 credits)

*Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above

*Must be 18 years of age or older

*Experienced on variety of social media platforms, especially Facebook, Twitter, and Storify. Blogging experience a plus.

*HTML experience preferred but not required

*Passion for social media, technology, and media industry trends/news

*Knowledge of markets/economy preferred, but not required

Internship Dates:

May 2013 – August 2013 

Still have questions? Email mc.wellons@nbcuni.com.

Twitter Hacked? Company Resets Some Passwords Some Twitter users received emails Thursday from the social media company stating that their account may have been compromised after a potential security breach. “Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We’ve reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account,” the email stated. Twitter also stated in the email that users should not reuse their old password and should create a new password that included a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. The company also recommended that users check their browser’s address bar when visiting the Twitter website to make sure the URL is indeed Twitter’s legitimate site. “Phishing sites often look just like Twitter, so check the URL before entering your login information!” the company said in the email. Twitter did not immediately respond for comment. Read the full email here. Photo: Twitter
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Twitter Hacked? Company Resets Some Passwords

Some Twitter users received emails Thursday from the social media company stating that their account may have been compromised after a potential security breach.

“Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We’ve reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account,” the email stated.

Twitter also stated in the email that users should not reuse their old password and should create a new password that included a combination of letters, numbers and symbols.

The company also recommended that users check their browser’s address bar when visiting the Twitter website to make sure the URL is indeed Twitter’s legitimate site.

“Phishing sites often look just like Twitter, so check the URL before entering your login information!” the company said in the email.

Twitter did not immediately respond for comment.

Read the full email here.


Photo: Twitter

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Randi Zuckerberg Talks Up Silicon Valley Reality Show The upcoming tech reality TV show, titled “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” will air Nov. 5 on the Bravo network. It will give viewers a glimpse of just how competitive the start-up scene is, said Zuckerberg, who is the executive producer of the program. Full story
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Randi Zuckerberg Talks Up Silicon Valley Reality Show

The upcoming tech reality TV show, titled “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” will air Nov. 5 on the Bravo network. It will give viewers a glimpse of just how competitive the start-up scene is, said Zuckerberg, who is the executive producer of the program.

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Why Tumblr May Be the Next Tech Buzz Word Tumblr may soon be the next social networking buzz-name. Founded in 2007, it has grown into the world’s 12th-largest website.  While it has some investor attention — the company is operating with $125 million so far — the question is whether the site can achieve profitability in the fiercely competitive world of online social media. The company has yet to make profit, but that may soon change. The site had roughly 140 million unique visitors and clocked 18 billion page views in April alone. Harnessing this traffic for advertisers is the company’s next step. Full Story
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Why Tumblr May Be the Next Tech Buzz Word

Tumblr may soon be the next social networking buzz-name. Founded in 2007, it has grown into the world’s 12th-largest website.  While it has some investor attention — the company is operating with $125 million so far — the question is whether the site can achieve profitability in the fiercely competitive world of online social media.

The company has yet to make profit, but that may soon change. The site had roughly 140 million unique visitors and clocked 18 billion page views in April alone. Harnessing this traffic for advertisers is the company’s next step.

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Who Are the Under-the-Radar Facebook Investors?  It’s no secret that Mark Zuckerberg will become an even richer man when Facebook shares begin trading. And you don’t have to look too hard to see his top lieutenants will do quite well also. David Choe is certainly the most unlikely. A graffiti artist who spray-painted the first Facebook office in 2005, he opted to be paid in stock instead of taking $60,000 in cash. An odd decision, at the time, given that the company had only recently incorporated and was then limited to college and high-school students. But it’s one that will pay off soon. That stock, according to Choe (who spoke on The Howard Stern Show in February), could be worth anywhere from $200 million to $500 million today. (He also added that he has since sold some of that stock on the private market, so it’s uncertain how much he still has.) Still, it’s not a bad payday for someone who convinced Zuckerberg to help him with the painting. “I believed in Sean [Parker, Facebook’s founding president],” said Choe. “I was like, this kid knows something and I’m going to bet on him.” Full Story
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Who Are the Under-the-Radar Facebook Investors? 

It’s no secret that Mark Zuckerberg will become an even richer man when Facebook shares begin trading. And you don’t have to look too hard to see his top lieutenants will do quite well also.

David Choe is certainly the most unlikely. A graffiti artist who spray-painted the first Facebook office in 2005, he opted to be paid in stock instead of taking $60,000 in cash. An odd decision, at the time, given that the company had only recently incorporated and was then limited to college and high-school students. But it’s one that will pay off soon.

That stock, according to Choe (who spoke on The Howard Stern Show in February), could be worth anywhere from $200 million to $500 million today. (He also added that he has since sold some of that stock on the private market, so it’s uncertain how much he still has.) Still, it’s not a bad payday for someone who convinced Zuckerberg to help him with the painting.

“I believed in Sean [Parker, Facebook’s founding president],” said Choe. “I was like, this kid knows something and I’m going to bet on him.”

Full Story

Source: cnbc.com

Friendly reminder to everyone: CNBC’s weekly Google+ hangout with John Carney is at 4pET today.  If you’d like to take part in the hangout, add CNBC to your circles and request an invite on our page. Be sure to use hashtag #CNBCHangout to spread the word. Our topic this week: In the wake of wide-scale May Day protests, Occupy Wall Street supporters will talk politics –with +Ron Paul supporters. Are their ideologies really so different?
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Friendly reminder to everyone:

CNBC’s weekly Google+ hangout with John Carney is at 4pET today.  If you’d like to take part in the hangout, add CNBC to your circles and request an invite on our page. Be sure to use hashtag #CNBCHangout to spread the word.

Our topic this week: In the wake of wide-scale May Day protests, Occupy Wall Street supporters will talk politics –with +Ron Paul supporters. Are their ideologies really so different?

Facebook IPO Could Be Delayed by Deals, Distractions Facebook management has been eyeing a May offering, with a roadshow launch as early as May 7 and the start of trading late the week of the 14th, people with knowledge of the deal have said. But in recent weeks, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been more focused on running the business and making acquisitions than on preparing for the share sale, according to one of these people, making it hard for him and other managers to focus wholeheartedly on the IPO preparations. Full Story Photo: Getty Images
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Facebook IPO Could Be Delayed by Deals, Distractions

Facebook management has been eyeing a May offering, with a roadshow launch as early as May 7 and the start of trading late the week of the 14th, people with knowledge of the deal have said. But in recent weeks, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been more focused on running the business and making acquisitions than on preparing for the share sale, according to one of these people, making it hard for him and other managers to focus wholeheartedly on the IPO preparations.

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Next Instagram-Size Acquisition Could Be Tumblr Even if you’re not familiar with blogging service Tumblr, you’ve probably visited one of the 20 BILLION blog posts on the 50 MILLION blogs the company hosts.  But you may not realize that Tumblr is second only to Facebook in terms of engagement, with its visitors spending an average of 160 minutes on the site each month. Full Story
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Next Instagram-Size Acquisition Could Be Tumblr

Even if you’re not familiar with blogging service Tumblr, you’ve probably visited one of the 20 BILLION blog posts on the 50 MILLION blogs the company hosts.  But you may not realize that Tumblr is second only to Facebook in terms of engagement, with its visitors spending an average of 160 minutes on the site each month.

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Facebook’s Final Private Trade Values Company at $109 Billion Facebook’s highly-anticipated final private market transaction has priced on SecondMarket at $43.50 (a record for the private market exchange), according to people familiar with the trade. That final trade values Facebook at roughly $109 billion. Full Story
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Facebook’s Final Private Trade Values Company at $109 Billion

Facebook’s highly-anticipated final private market transaction has priced on SecondMarket at $43.50 (a record for the private market exchange), according to people familiar with the trade. That final trade values Facebook at roughly $109 billion.

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Facebook Launches Mobile Ads and ‘Friends’ Marketers with New Tools Despite rain and wind, over a thousand people turned out for Facebook’s first event for marketers. Over 1,000 people packed into the theater at the Natural History Museum on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to hear COO Sheryl Sandberg. Full Story Photo: Getty Images
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Facebook Launches Mobile Ads and ‘Friends’ Marketers with New Tools

Despite rain and wind, over a thousand people turned out for Facebook’s first event for marketers. Over 1,000 people packed into the theater at the Natural History Museum on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to hear COO Sheryl Sandberg.

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Photo: Getty Images

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