Ok, not that fast, but moving along…

While it has certainly been taking longer than I had hoped, I wanted to quickly update our blog letting you guys know that we are moving along and we’ve got a lot of nice things implemented.

As mentioned in our original post, we’re building our new web app on top of our new API, which is also on our new backend (MongoDB and MySQL).  This has been working really well for Socialping since it is making everything run faster, will scale much better and we can ensure that if we can do it on our site, you can do it yourself via the API.

Our Notification System is fully operational and supports more notification methods than our original implementation did.  This new system has a lot of benefits – most importantly, it’s fast, really fast – but it also includes the ability for us to add new notification methods quickly.  Tonight we added our 12th notification method – It was Notifo, and it took just an hour to get it fully up and running (also in part because of their excellent documentation and awesome PHP Library).

Adding watchlist items and tags is also fully complete.  Deleting them via the API is possible and our web app is nearly ready to release the UI to do this.

We have a really robust user management feature that allows you to add users to your account so they can tweet, view reports, set up their own notifications and more.  It’s a very fine-grained solution too.  Don’t want a specific user you just added to be able to send tweets? No problem, just disable that feature from their privileges.

LiveConference (Our Tweet wall feature) is fully functional, as is our Tweet wall manager (allows you to prevent users, keywords or tweets that originated in certain twitter apps from appearing on your tweet wall).  The UI for customizing the look and feel of your tweet wall should be completed in the near future. We’ve done over a dozen events recently where they utilized our tweet wall and we have a number of them in the near future.

The UI for interacting with tweets has been planned out and we are finally starting to work on that.

We have a new snazzy reporting console as well.  You can see Tweet and Retweet volume, unique and absolute reach, percentage of Tweets vs Retweets, time of day distribution, most popular Twitter users, most interaction with the terms you are watching, and can break those down by overall, just tweets or just Retweets. You can also export the charts as PDF’s and other various image formats right from withing the report interface so you can include them in emails or internal reports.  This doesn’t even include the account related stats that we are starting to track.

So, while it is taking a bit longer than expected, hopefully this is reassuring to the thousands of people on our waiting list.  We’re already letting a few of the larger companies in, and they are stress testing it out.  Expect some big announcements soon.