Twitter has begun to roll out their new site design. Over the next couple of weeks, they will rollover a small percentage of their users to the new design. They claim it will be an easier, faster and richer experience. The timeline will be the same, but underneath each individual Tweet there will be a [...]

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As long as none of our Twitter followers delete us as I’m writing this, I’m excited to announce that the A2 Hosting Twitter account now has 2500 followers. We are proud of this fact considering that we only REALLY started tweeting back in December ’09 (check out these telling stats). Now I realize that this [...]

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Yesterday I received an email from TweetUp informing me of “Launch of Search and Account Management”. I’ve been waiting to give TweetUp a shot because, to be honest, I’m not really sure what it is all about yet and I’ve really been wanting to play with it. So in hopes of clearing up everyone’s confusion, [...]

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I’m a big fan of following charts for pop media. I like to look at Nielsen ratings for TV, which movies are at the top of the box office and which musical artists are blowing up the charts on Billboard’s charts. I just came across another chart I need to keep track of at What [...]

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Do you ever see a cool tweet that you would like to post on your website? Isn’t it a pain to do a screenshot of the Tweet, trim the picture down, upload it to an image directory and put it on your website? I got a bit winded just typing that out. Twitter released a [...]

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Keep an eye out for the new Twitter search engine Tweetup. There are plenty of ways to search for tweets on Twitter, but Tweetup is apparently going to be the new and improved Twitter search engine. Tweetup is supposed to be to Twitter what Google is to the internet. Tweetup claims that its algorithm will [...]

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Here’s some interesting news for our eCommerce hosting customers, especially those with a Twitter presence. Last week, Twitter launched their own ad program called “Promoted Tweets”. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations use to advertise to a wider group of users. These tweets will show up on top of Twitter.com’s search result [...]

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Are you following a celebrity’s tweets on Twitter, but not entirely sure if that Twitter user is exactly who he says he is? Or are you following 5 separate celebrity accounts in hopes that one of them is the real deal? Now you don’t have to worry about following Twitter phonies. Just look for the [...]

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We were sitting on 1999 Twitter followers yesterday and I was on the edge of my seat wanting to announce that we had reached 2000. I wanted to write about how we had come a long way from having only 78 followers just under a year ago on April 17, 2009. It just didn’t happen [...]

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I spend a portion of my day on Twitter for work everyday. The one thing that has always frustrated me is that everyday there is a top Twitter trend that I have no clue what it means. Sure I can click on the trend on Twitter.com to see an explanation, but an explanation isn’t always [...]

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