After using Last.fm for quite a while I wanted a method to share my listening habits through the social networks. I initially wrote a small application in December 2009 that was used by a few friends. This small idea began to grow quickly and before long I'd taken on thousands of new users for my new service, LastStat.us.

A few other similar services were in existence that either didn't perform very now defunct. One of these was a service called tweekly.fm which was operated by Simon de la Rouviere. After discussions with the Simon, it was agreed that my project would replace the existing tweekly.fm implementation and I'd take over the operational aspects of the service. You could call it an acquisition, but Simon still has a big say in the direction of where tweekly.fm will go.

Where the original tweekly.fm had failed, the new codebase was excelling and pushed the service to over a 100,000 users in its first 12 month period. Publishing for Facebook was added in the summer of 2010 and performance increases were made in both speed and operation. My humble little project had grown into a widely used system that people come to rely on to publish their statistics to their social networks.