We’ve got the usual types of goals, more Twitter interaction and engagement, more followers and what may seem odd, more friending on our part (we’re sometimes a bit too selective on friending).

If you’re setting Twitter goals, don’t forget that you can use Socialping to track many of these no matter which type of goal you set, percentage-based or actual number based.

If you’ve got any Twitter goals, please let us know in the comments below.  We’d love to hear them, and we might even add it to our resolutions as well.

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.

Even though Socialping is still in private beta – and beta programs are called beta specifically because unforeseen things can and do happen – we never treated Socialping like it was a beta program, we always tried to act as if our users were paying us. That is why it saddens me so much to have to break this news to you guys.

All is not lost though, even though the account data is (tweets are OK, even though they are pointless now without account data to associate with), we’ve learned so much about what we do, and because what has happened, we have the unique ability to start fresh.  We’ve been planning on pivoting Socialping for a while now, due to the recent survey that we had all of our users complete.  That survey told us lots of things, but most importantly, what exactly our users wanted out of Socialping.

Starting immediately, we are going to rebuild Socialping, keeping the parts that matter and canning the rest. We are laser focused on our notification capabilities and reporting, since combined 80% of you said that those two things were the main features that you guys use Socialping for. And don’t worry if you like to export your tweets our use our LiveConference feature, those aren’t going anywhere either.

Socialping Beta v2 will be out soon.  We hope to see you join the new beta program. Just like before, it’s going to be first come, first served, so get in asap.

If you have any questions or comments, please post them below in the comments.

Socialping is a small startup, just 4 guys, all working remotely, all working on something we love.  So yes, we’re not a big company, heck we’re not even funded, but what we do have is a team that is well experienced in the various requirements to build an awesome, rock-solid and stable Twitter monitoring service that is screaming fast, intuitive to use and flexible enough to want to use.

We plan on having a bit of fun with this blog. We’re going to write about things we’re working on now, things that will be coming soon, the random things in our heads, and occasionally throwing in detailed analysis’ of things we’ve been monitoring.

Everyone in the company is going to be involved (see the “pinger’s” on the right for who we are), and we’re all going to be writing in our own style and about the things that matter to us.  No filter’s and no approval’s – just the raw us.

So, sit back, enjoy the ride, and maybe, just maybe if you’re up to it, leave us some comments on our posts so we know we’re loved.