Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings.
On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.
Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.
We use Python for all our data collecting, general scripting, and some of our stream processing (though stream processing is moving to a more generalized framework that is Java/Clojure based).
Also, our underlying API (that serves results to all our products/API/etc) is a collection of Python servers written with Twisted and Thrift.
Thanks! If you're in the city come by the Lisp/Clojure meetup tonight — we're talking about Clojure at BackType, the tools we've open sourced and demoing our new stream processing framework.
Wow, that is sketchy. That's on Twitter's end, something must have broke recently (today) because I've never seen that before on any of their auth pages. (mike from backtype)
Hiring is the most important thing a startup does. We care so much that we created an app to help us reach hackers and let our friends explain why you should join us:
We're very flexible — it could be a standard school term, the summer break, or start tomorrow and last into the spring. Shoot me an email mm[at]backtype[dot]com if you have any more specific questions.
BackType (YC08) is hiring brilliant back and front-end engineers.
Why join us?
- we're very early on (3 hackers w/ revenues)
- tackling hard problems with big data at big scale (TBs of data, 100 node cluster, almost 1B monthly requests)
- chasing a massive opportunity (helping companies understand their social impact)
Our technology blog has more about what we're building and the tools we work with (http://tech.backtype.com). You can also learn more by checking out our presentation next week at the Hadoop summit, where we're talking about our tech alongside Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix and Twitter.
Email me (mm at backtype dot com) with links, a github profile, and why this sounds like fun to you.
BackType (YC08) is hiring engineers to work on both the front and back end of our analytics product. We work mostly with Clojure and Python and use a mix of technologies from Thrift and Hadoop to Cassandra and graph databases. We're three people, we all code, and we work with TBs of data, manage a cluster of 100 machines, and build and scale products that serve hundreds of millions of monthly requests.
BackTweets has actually been around for a while too -- and was always a part of BackType Connect (which shows you other reactions including hacker news, digg, reddit, friendfeed). We even personalize results to show a viewer which of their friends shared a link:
http://www.backtype.com/connect/danieltenner.com%252fposts%2...
We have a similar chicklet to encourage retweets; it differs in that the colors are completely customizable and it integrates automatically with google analytics. Another one of our widgets shows only the interesting tweets:
http://widgets.backtype.com/backtweets?url=http://danieltenn...
Hi Brad, thanks for getting in touch with us -- we had an issue related to your domain specifically that is being addressed right now in addition to some corrupted indexes that were affecting all of our counts today. Both of these will be fixed very soon and our counts will return to being accurate.
On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.
Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.