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Please retweet me

A marriage counselor tells a woman that sometimes her spouse feels too vulnerable to ask for a retweet

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Joint custody

(lawyers for a divorcing couple argue over custody of the joint blog)

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Five ways to say goodbye to scolding tweets

3 September, 2009
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by Alexandra Samuel

Twitter is home to many recurrent motifs, but one of the most reliable is the mass finger wag. Unlike the single finger wag, which takes aim at a specific individual or company ("Airline X lost my luggage!" "So tired of @username's whining!"), the mass finger-wag -- let's call it the hand-wag -- tackles an entire category of twitter users, an entire genre of twitter usage, or a swath of the offline population. Tweets like:

Not another Snow Leopard tweet! We've heard enough about your OS upgrade for one night.

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Friend (n.): Acquaintance. Dimly-recognized name. Means of driving up your numbers on LinkedIn.

(one businessperson to another) It was great meeting with you. Have your people friend my people.

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@awsamuel Could you pass the salt?

Couple on a sofa. One, looking at a computer, says to the other, 'I can't talk right now. I'm catching up on your tweets.'

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Blog ROI: You can relate

10 ways to maximize your blog's ROI: Part 4, building relationships

25 February, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

So far in this 10-part series, we've seen how blogs can help you give your organization a human voice, gain valuable feedback and create a communications alternative to news releases and advertising. Now we're going to look at how it can help you build relationships with your customers, your public and your team.

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