You will be expected to have your valid government-issued identification at the reception desk for you to get a special discount for military personnel. Once you are identified as military personnel, you, and/or your family will get special discount in the Hampton Inn room you will be staying. While there are no extra special services for military personnel hotel guests, you can always count on the same professional warm welcome as everyone else staying at the hotel, and can equally enjoy the same amenities as others, with the added advantage that you are paying less for all what you are getting.

Some of these amenities include a complementary hot breakfast, extra soft bed, free high speed internet connection every location within the hotel (individual rooms and the lobby inclusive) and of course the 1005 Satisfaction Guarantee. Hampton Inn and Suites has both regular rooms as well as suites, and apart from the new Hampton Boutique line, you will be in a limited-service hotel with no shops or restaurants within the hotel building, and notably there will be no concierge services.

Thus, if you are a service man or women travelling across the country, you can rest assured that the Hampton Inn chain of Hotels appreciates the role you play on behalf of Americans, and is always more than willing to extend a special rate for a clean, warm, and pleasant room at any of the many Hampton Inns and Suites spread across the country.

Actually, it makes sense since most of the salad recipe is sating but at the same time, they are not fatty. What does a salad have as ingredients? Well, that is mainly vegetables, oil and other seasonings. Of course, more and more salads have different kinds of meat in them but it is really not recommendable if you want to use the salads as a way for losing weight.

However, a perfect salad recipe should be not only sating but also tastes good. After all, it is important to eat something tasty during the period of your diet otherwise it would be still unpleasant although you will not be starving. Fortunately, there are many recipes for salads which are appropriate for losing weight and you are not likely to have problems choosing at least one which you like. But the truth is that if you want your diet to be successful, you’d better consume different spinach recipe salads every day. Your organism needs to be supplied with a super variety of micro- and macro- elements; and also vitamins and antioxidants. You should know that there is no dish (not even a salad) which contains all of them which is why consuming a variety of salads is the best way to get them.

But all advantages of a ‘salad diet’ have not been mentioned yet. You probably know that there are many women who undergo the so called yo-yo effect. There is no doubt that it is the most discouraging thing which could happen to somebody- after weeks of starvation, it all was for nothing! Anyway, it has been proved and it is a fact that by using a salad recipe or vegetable recipe as your diet regime, the risk of experiencing the unpleasant yo-yo effect is very, very small! So that was one more reason why to choose salads as the best and most efficient way to lose the extra kilos.

Many people, while loving the Twitter concept, desire the inclusion of emoticons and smileys on their Interface, but at the time of writing, Twitter have no intentions of adding them to their service. The reason for this is that they are seen as a method of degrading the quality and look of the overall experience and worries about Emoticon spamming come to fruition. Twitter’s defence is that their service is for micro-blogging text and with the limited 140 character limit; there is no room for emoticons on their message boards. 

Many Twitter users feel that the service is lacking because of this decision and see Twitter as even being incomplete without them. 

There is however, an alternative. ‘TwitterKeys’* is a website which has a list of UTF compatible characters that can be used on Twitter posts. These are not as detailed as typical emoticons and smileys from say Facebook or Yahoo! Messenger; however they do show basic graphic images in black and white – more than is currently supported by Twitter by default. 

The Emoticons are fairly basic but there is a good range of content varying from a telephone image to a moon, hearts, stars, flowers and other typical symbols that you would expect to find on an Emoticon list. 

Implementing them into Twitter is very simple too. Simply double click on the Emoticon or icon that is to be used, hold down ‘Ctrl + C’ to copy the image and then press ‘Ctrl + V’ to paste the image into the Twitter text box. It’s as easy as that. These TwitterKey Emoticons are not just limited to the Twitter website either, they can be used in documents such as Word and Excel or on other instant messaging tools and social media websites. 

The link to find TwitterKeys is below.

Twitter Smileys and Emoticons

Twitter suffered a “sudden failure” and then encountered problems switching to a backup system, which left the site “largely inaccessible” for about 90 minutes, the company said.

Once notorious for regular and prolonged outages, Twitter has improved in this respect in the past year, but remains inconsistent. In August of last year, Twitter logged more than 6 hours of downtime, following a total of only 17 minutes in July, according to monitoring company Pingdom. In October, it had more than 5 hours of downtime, sandwiched between only 33 minutes in September and 22 minutes in November.

While Twitter is a free service, it has a large ecosystem of external developers whose revenue-generating Twitter-based applications are affected whenever the system has performance problems.

In addition, Twitter has concrete plans to generate revenue itself, at which point it the stability of the site will affect customers, whether they are advertisers or businesses that subscribe to fee-based Twitter services.

Rumors had been swirling that the pair – who have only been dating for five months – were about to have a baby after they were spotted checking out baby clothes in a London kids boutique called Cubs.

REPORT: Katy Perry & Russell Brand Engaged!

But Perry killed the rumors by confessing on her Twitter page that it was her time of the month by saying: “@thedoctoluke ur gonna make me cry, maybe that’s my period tho. THAT’S RIGHT I’M BLEEDING. Face. Better luck next month peepz.”

Speculation the 25-year-old is carrying 34-year-old Brand’s baby also spiked after she posted a series of hints on her Twitter page recently.

PHOTOS: Katy Perry Wears Engagement Dazzler

One tweet read: “Just so you guys in LA that you guys are about to experience 2010 … It’s noon on January 1st here in the future – let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!”

And Perry also posted a series of cryptic Twitter messages hinting she was pregnant – the day after her New Year’s Eve engagement in India, the singer wrote: “Let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!”

Kardashian’s Twitter page is littered with tweets likes this, ”Check out my commercial for @carlsjr…What do you think?” and “OMG!!! Bumpits! I need it! LOL.” Which tweets are paid? At this time, Kardashian’s Twitter page does not have any tweets labeled as sponsored. According to Derek Rey the co-founder of Ad.ly; Kardashian’s sponsored tweets are limited to once per day.

TAKE A FREE LOOK HERE

Twitter’s rapid growth made it the object of intense interest and a fair amount of ridicule, as it was derided as high-tech trivia or the latest in time-wasting devices. But its use in Iran in the wake of the disputed presidential election of June 2009 to organize protests and disseminate information in the face of a news media crackdown brought it new respect.

“Twitterers” or “tweeters” send and receive short messages, called “tweets,” on Twitter’s Web site, with instant messaging software, or with mobile phones.

When a user is logged in through the Web or a cellphone, it asks one simple question, “What are you doing?” Users answer in 140 characters or fewer. While some of these tweets have the profundity of haiku, most are mundane, like “Sure is pretty out tonight” or “My eyes itch. I am very aggravated.”

Unlike most text messages, tweets are routed among networks of friends. Strangers, called “followers,” can also choose to receive the tweets of people they find interesting.

Then today it all went pear shaped as Biz Stone (Co-founder) announced a ‘non traditional’ way they will allow advertising on Twitter without telling us what it is – a great way to get spin going, especially when you are as popular as Twitter!

In my opinion Biz Stone and Twitter have just showed how dumb people can be when it comes to monetizing popular free programs. What did MySpace do? Sell advertising. What did Facebook do? Sell advertising. What is Twitter going to do? Sell advertising – albeit wrapped in a ‘non traditional’ catchphrase. The crux of all of this is that no-one has any idea how to make money out of free software that is popular and when you have no ideas, you turn to 3rd party advertisers.

Biz, I am sure advertising will bring in some revenue, but you have missed a golden opportunity here to take a different approach, it is a crazy idea, but people might actually be prepared to pay for software that makes their lives better. Here is the model I would have approached.

Premium Accounts

I know a premium account is just a stupid name for making more money than a normal account. Usually companies (think realestate.com.au and domain.com.au) create a popular site and then cut the throat of their core by making them look less important than premium companies. In real estate it is a joke, but with Twitter it would be different as it makes sense on top of a free model. Myhome.com.au do it with premium style listings on top of basic free listings. I don’t mind this approach as long as the user (the person looking for properties) is not getting search results compromised.

Basic
With Twitter nothing changes, you get all of the same features as you currently do, you are treated the same and all new updates are afforded to you. In other words – in other words we still love you and we understand without you – we could not operate successfully!

Premium – Multiple Accounts
You can create multiple accounts all under the one account. As an example. I have Agentpoint, Business2, Ginga and Zooproperty.com. Currently I have 4 Twitter accounts to manage. So I can now have a master account and merge others accounts under this one account – nothing changes for my followers.

When a user wants to follow me they can select what account(s) to follow or ‘follow all’. My default account is my master account – so if they do not choose any accounts, it then defaults to my master account.

Nothing changes when I Tweet as I have separate accounts to Tweet under and no-one gets annoyed.

Premium – Customise Theme
My “Twemium” account allows us to customise our Twitter theme some more. Better sidebar control, better backgrounds etc. All of my accounts now become a part of a left sidebar and can be click-able. I can also customise my background with a few extra features.

Fees

So what would a user pay as a premium price for these features? I would say $55 USD per annum is a fair price that most can afford for what essentially is a great service. Not everyone would need to upgrade and there is no penalty for not upgrading.

Revenue

Let’s say 20% of users upgrade to premium. Current estimates put twitter at about 5 million active users. So that would bring in around $55 million per annum. I would consider this a good return on what is essentially a 100 person company. How many companies could boast $550,00 in revenue per employee? This could easily grow to 100 million per annum.

If they get selfish and stupid they will fail. Twitter is no flash in the pan, but it we may get a little bored with it and if we are not careful only business will be interested and that will kill the platform.

Biz Stone tells us he is in no rush, well, he is in no rush to fail and everything they were doing up until now made sense. If advertiser revenue is their only idea with this software then they seriously need to take more time before making announcements.

Several tools across the Web let you find unique Twitter backgrounds. Some services are certainly better than others, but I’ve found a few that should satisfy your desire to improve your profile.

Spice up Twitter

FreeTwitterDesigner: If you’re looking for an easy way to create a nice background for your Twitter profile, FreeTwitterDesigner will fit the bill.

When you get to the site, you’ll need to decide if you want to log in with your Twitter account or use the site’s tools as a guest. In either case, you can develop the background that you want. The site lets you start out with a blank slate or to change up some of the themes available on the site. If you choose to sign in as a guest, you’ll need to download your background and upload it to Twitter. It’s much easier to offer up your Twitter credentials, so the site can add it automatically when you’re all set.

I liked FreeTwitterDesigner. It provided a simple, yet useful tool for creating a background. It’s worth trying out.

Rather than create a Twitter background yourself, Tweet Scenes’ professional team of graphic artists will do it for you. In order to use Tweet Scenes, you need to upload an image, enter into a form what you want on the background, and submit it to the company. Within three days, Tweet Scenes delivers a design for you. It costs $109, which is a little costly, but if you’re looking for a sophisticated, professional background, the site might be what you’re looking for.