Author Archives: Joel Strellner
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 [...]
Watchlists: How To Get What You Want
27July
Socialping prides ourselves on the many diverse notification options we offer, as well as the speed at which we can get them to you (normally within seconds). But sometimes what you’re watching for is more complex than just a single keyword or phrase, sometimes you need to use boolean matching or you want to match [...]
Scale, Scale, Scale
26May
The scalability of Socialping hasn’t been looking too good lately. We’ve got hundreds of users in our beta and thousands of items being watched, collectively bringing in hundreds of thousands of tweets each and every day. These aren’t little terms that only get a few tweets an hour either, many of them are terms like [...]
Gettin’ your ping on, /via @SMS
05May
Earlier today we rolled out a number of bug fixes, but one of the more important ones was related to enabling SMS. Prior to today, unless you were one of our iPhone beta testers the lucky few, if you tried to add SMS notifications, they didn’t work – you’d enable it, but nada, no SMS. [...]
Microsoft Bizspark Startup of the Day!
15April
We’ve been bunkered down, adding the features you’ve requested, and additional stability that we need to continue growing at the pace that we are in the beta program, so we haven’t done a blog post in a while, but today that changes – we’re a Microsoft Bizspark startup of the day! A while back, in [...]
Did Denny’s Hit a Grand Slam?
10February
During Super Bowl XLIV Denny’s ran an advertisement as well as sponsored a segment of the broadcast offering a free Original Grand Slam breakfast to anyone who visited one of their restaurants. The results are in from Denny’s free Original Grand Slam day, and well, let’s just let the chart below speak for itself first. [...]
Google Product Launch or Super Bowl Ad?
09February
Today Twitter and Facebook saw a new competitor come into focus, one that they’ve known was coming for a while, I’m sure. Today Google launched Google Buzz, and from what I can see, they sure are getting a lot of it now. Since we are still monitoring Google on Twitter from their Super Bowl Ad, [...]
Super Bowl XLIV & Twitter – The Socialping Analysis
09February
Sunday was Super Bowl XLIV and was by far the largest stress test we’ve done on Socialping. We monitored over 630,000 tweets mentioning the Super Bowl, and another 270,000 related to all the various advertisers for a total of around 900,000 tweets in a 4 hour span. While we did learn a lot about how [...]
Doing the Retrofit