Ping.fm was created with the intent of making it as easy as possible to post updates to multiple social networking sites simultaneously for free.
The launch into Open Beta was covered by outlets like Wired,[1] and Mashable.
[2] Ping.fm has been[citation needed] compared favorably to other websites with similar functionality like HelloTxt, which shut down in August 2012.
[3] Ping.fm is powered by LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with some .NET used in the core software.
[citation needed] In May 2012, Seesmic announced in its blog that Ping.fm would be closed in June 2012.