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Popular on Twitter: Newsweek’s new editor is a movie scribe, Klout gets $8.5 million to figure out the social web, MySpace layoffs are “imminent”

By Hourly Press Jan. 10, 2011, 2:30 p.m.

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POSTED Jan. 10, 2011, 2:30 p.m.

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