Here is simple way how you can check the quality of a web hosting using Twitter. Well, let’s take a look at Web Hosting company named X (it might probably be Hostgator, Bluehost, Fatcow, Justhost, Netfirms, Inmotion or any predominant web hosting companies outside). Most of the techniques mentioned below don’t require you to be a registered Twitter user. So, here are a few tips.

Look for Company’s Twitter Account
If you are looking for ‘X’, you can check the Twitter feed of the company itself. To find a company on Twitter just go to the ‘Find’ page (this method require you to registered) at ‘twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter’ . Then just key in ‘X’ and examine the results. But sometimes it could be more than one suggestion from the keywords. To make sure that Twitter account is belongs to ‘X’, check for their URL. If its shorten url, it might be somebody else that pretend to be that company.

Google It
However, you still can Google it just to get fastest result on their Twitter company’s name. Just Google for ‘X Twitter’ then you’ll find tons of results page about them. Just straight away go for search results with company name at the end of Twitter URL. For example http://twitter.com/X

How to Use Twitter Search
Ok now for performing real action on Twitter search. Go to http://search.twitter.com (you don’t have to register to use). At the search box, type in the name of the company you’re interested in (X) and check the results. They might be lots of Tweets with annoying shortening URL asking you to visit that site. That might probably a SPAM.

Thing you should do
If you want to filter it, go to search box again, type company name with this syndicate ‘-http’ and ‘-www’. It should looks like this (X -http -www). Both -http and -www preventing you from getting any Tweets with promoting URL. Seems that we are looking for people’s Tweets about their experiences and think about web-hosting company’s service, those Tweets with annoying URL are not working and useless.

Here come the results
So the results is there, you just get a realtime comments, reviews, complaints, and anything about the company services. Then you might probably not looking for one hosting company only. You can try as many web hosting company as you can as long as they got clients on Twitter.

I hope that this tip on how to use Twitter to research your website hosting company comes in handy. But if you want additional research on web hosting review, you can checkout twthosting.com where they combine two greatest search tools, Twitter and Google SERP.

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