{"id":7052,"date":"2009-02-23T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2009-02-23T13:06:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:06:28","slug":"tweet-us-better-mr-liniger-when-in-the-world-is-remax-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7052\/tweet-us-better-mr-liniger-when-in-the-world-is-remax-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet Us Better Mr. Liniger! — When In The World Is RE\/MAX International?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woe is me. I’m feeling rejected, ignored, and well, sorta “LOST.”<\/a> Where and “When”<\/strong><\/em> the heck In the World\u00a0 is RE\/MAX International?….<\/p>\n

Denver?<\/p>\n

1977?<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing. I’ve controlled “Twitter.Com\/remax<\/a>” for over a year now and I still haven’t received one email from somebody at International asking me to forfeit the identity. I expected they’d shut me down due to a corporate policy that stipulates I’m not allowed to use the RE\/MAX name online.<\/p>\n

I remember that when I grabbed the handle on a lark I was thinking, “well with the popularity of this Twitter thing (whatever it is) I’m sure mother RE\/MAX will be in touch soon to snag or perhaps even buy it away by grandfathering me in as a 100 percenter or something”.\u00a0 Wishful thinking. Nothing happened and I forgot I even owned the identity.<\/p>\n

So when I recently noticed I’d been picking up “followers” out of the blue, I decided to lob a few tweets as an experiment of sorts to see what the reaction might be.\u00a0 I posted mostly recruiting and company website plugs for the RE\/MAX I’m currently at<\/a>, and picked up 70 or so more followers over the span of a few weeks.\u00a0 But still, no response from the Big Balloon.<\/p>\n

The only thanks I got for my effort was my new broker calling a few weeks ago to ask why I had porn on the site.\u00a0 I guess I’d accidentally followed or reciprocated on a follow request from a Philly area escort service, and a colleague of ours pointed it out to him. I apologized and zapped the pretty lady off of the profile, and that was that.\u00a0 (At least I think…)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I don’t know why, but this Twitter.com\/remax<\/a> thing has really been on my mind a lot lately for some reason. Isn’t Twitter a big enough deal that someone at RE\/MAX, maybe even one of my recent RE\/MAX colleague followers would have dimed me out to the appropriate department in Denver?\u00a0 I mean, I think I sorta deserve something for my efforts. Maybe at least rebuke from International for using the corporate name in vain?<\/p>\n

You see, I\u00a0 want Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woe is me. I’m feeling rejected, ignored, and well, sorta “LOST.” Where and “When” the heck In the World\u00a0 is RE\/MAX International?…. Denver? 1977? Here’s the thing. I’ve controlled “Twitter.Com\/remax” for over a year now and I still haven’t received one email from somebody at International asking me to forfeit the identity. 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