Author Archives: Joel Strellner
Recent Changes (12/19/11)
19December
So what’s new at Socialping? Lots. And here’s the skinny on what has been recently deployed: New chart option allowing you to flip between Absolute Values and Daily Change Values on the Twitter account reporting pages. Essentially, you can now easily switch between seeing total number vs just the changes when looking at or comparing [...]
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Using Socialping: for Twitter ROI Measurement
06December
This is part of our Using Socialping series of posts, where we give a general overview on different use cases for Socialping. We try to keep things a bit general. Have any questions on the details? Just ask in the comments are below. How many of you measure your return on investment (ROI) on Twitter? [...]
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Recent Changes (11/28)
28November
It’s been a really long time since we put out a new blog post, and so much has happened. As you may or may not know, Socialping is live for anyone to sign up. That’s a huge jump up from what we’ve been our entire life, in private beta. We are constantly changing things, most [...]
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Infrastructure
21April
There has been a lot of talk over the last few years about outsourcing your infrastructure to companies like Amazon’s AWS service, or Rackspace’s Cloud Servers and others. This mentality is wrong, for most people. Today we are in the middle of a massive Amazon outage that has been going on for many hours already, [...]
Ok, not that fast, but moving along…
06February
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 [...]
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Going that way, really fast.
13September
I was just reading an interesting post on Coding Horror about iterating quickly and it got me thinking about all the iterating we’re doing on Socialping. Granted we’re a small company and have been given the opportunity to make dozens of changes without having to support a previous version or transition data, there’s still a lot to [...]
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Doing the Retrofit
09September
As you may know, we’re doing a bit of remodeling to Socialping since we were given the unfortunate ability to start clean. In an effort to try and be more open about everything going on behind the scenes, today I wanted to outline a bit of what’s happening to Socialping and what the process will be for bringing it back online. [...]
New Beginnings, and Eating Our Own Dog Food
05September
Since we’ve been fortunate, or unfortunate enough to start over on Socialping (depending on how you look at it), we have an awesomely unique opportunity to 100% eat our own dog food, and we’re going to. In Socialping’s v1 beta, the API was an after thought, and because of it, there were a lot of features [...]
Socialping is effed, and it’s my fault
04September
Earlier today something happened, something that I hate to even think about, but it happened. Our main database, where we store user account information, like the users, companies and what terms are being watched got deleted – and the worst part? I did it. I didn’t do it on purpose of course, but it happened [...]
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Have Any Twitter New Year’s Resolutions?