Adam’s Blog

Hi there,

In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It’s been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We’ve had quite a year. If you haven’t visited in a while, we’d like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com — we’ve been busy!

Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he’s an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.

Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.

Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you’ve shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology — it is a triumph of humanity. Projects like Fledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.

Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We’ll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference.

Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.

Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
authority.

Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X — this time
for sure!

The Windows and OS X bundles also come with a newer version of Polipo
that fixes some stability and security problems.

People using Tor as a client should upgrade:
https://www.torproject.org/easy-download

Changes in version 0.2.1.23 – 2010-02-13
 o Major bugfixes (performance):
   - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
     which of our guards we’d use uniformly at random. This imbalance
     meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
     probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
     select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
     automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
     bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.

 o Major bugfixes:
   - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
     use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
     version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
     Apple doesn’t update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
     libraries in a security patch.
   - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
     that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
     a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we’ve
     requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
     by aakova.

 o Minor bugfixes:
   - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
     Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.

 o Minor features:
   - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
     rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
     throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
     in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
     over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.

Changes in version 0.2.1.24 – 2010-02-21
 o Minor bugfixes:
   - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
     of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don’t need
     customized patches to run/build.

Hi there,

In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It’s been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We’ve had quite a year. If you haven’t visited in a while, we’d like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com – we’ve been busy!

Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he’s an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.

Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.

Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you’ve shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology — it is a triumph of humanity. Projects likeFledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.

Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We’ll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference.

Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.

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Welcome to the first – or second depending on when you received last week’s – issue of the SEO Chat newsletter. As part of our New Year’s Resolution, we are resolving to bring you a bevvy of new content to help you climb to the top of the search engines – and stay there.

If you are looking to to further your SEO know-how, you’ll appreciate the articles we published this week. Wednesday’s article showed you how to get SEO Information from Google’s Cache. Tuesday’s item showed you which SEO strategies work, and which ones don’t. And on Monday, we gave you a first class review of Google Real-Time Search.

You’ll also want to check out Tutorialized, where you’ll find more than 100 SEO-related tutorials on topics such as choosing keywords, website promotion, and more. You can also share your expertise with the whole world by submitting your own tutorial. Best of all, it’s free.

To pay homage to the great conversations held in our forums last year, we are paying tribute to not only one of our best thread’s of last year, but also one of our best Spotlight’s.

As always, thanks for reading.

Until next time,
SEO Chat Staff