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Back in the day, if your favorite TV show was on the network chopping block, your only real option for hoping to get it saved was organizing a massive letter writing campaign.

It’s official: Twitter has hit the mainstream. Want proof? My father asked me about “that Twitter thing.” Oh, and something about Oprah, something else about Ashton Kutcher and a 131% growth in March alone have also raised the social information site’s profile…just a bit. But as more people sign up for the service, the currency of Twitter, thought capital, will be based off the notion of citation. Or in Twitterspeak, the retweet.

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