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Technical Support

Ensuring the delivery of billions of social media interactions every month, our support organization consistently delights customers with our proactive quest for superior performance. Support is constantly challenged through time, satisfaction and other metrics and includes the following:

Service Level Agreements

Our SLAs equip you with a predictable set of uptime, response time and resolution time metrics along with clear communication paths and escalation procedures.

Monitoring and Maintenance

With the support of an independent third party we monitor all customer environments 24 x 7 x 365. And we're responsible for maintaining staging, production and other environments for our clients.

Release Upgrades

With our rapid development processes, we generally make new releases available to you once each month. And through partnerships with our Account Services team, we coach you through and help you decide when and how to take releases in to your staging and production environments. Plus, with our unique network environment, we generally enable upgrades without any down time for your end users.

Response Hours

We are on call 24 x 7 x 365, with no exceptions, with a variety of escalation approaches to ensure that you receive exceptional customer care whenever you need us.


The Top 10 Things We Do To Minimize Your Need for Technical Support

Over the years, we've learned that the best approach to providing technical support is to avoid the need for it in the first place. Following are the top 10 ways we minimize the likelihood that you'll have to report a technical issue:

  1. We enforce test-driven software development
  2. We architect software from the ground up to handle thousands of requests per second
  3. We've built the best possible high availability datacenter infrastructure
  4. We've built a separate Developer Support team responsible for teaching and empowering your technical team
  5. We hire network operations talent with software engineering backgrounds
  6. We equip customers to trial their own deployments on fully supported staging environments
  7. We invest heavily in load balancing and failover systems
  8. We monitor everything 24/7, with no exceptions
  9. We maintain a constant dialogue with customers
  10. We financially motivate ourselves to maximize your uptime