Hi, I am trying to spy on spies on myspace. I put the Geo Visitors tracker on my page. Myspace automatically keeps track of how many views my profile gets. I have noticed that I have had 10 views, yet only 4 balloons show up on my Geo Visitors map. Does anyone know why that might be? Thanks for any help! MBV
I had a friend test it out, she is in Long Beach and went to look at my profile. No LONG BEACH balloon. Then I had a friend in Irvine look at it, No IRVINE balloon. I know FOR SURE they do not use the same provider/network. Could it be something else? Could people browsing via Firefox be "blocked" from the tracker?
Oh snap, now you are getting technical, I was afraid of that (embarrassed). I am super computer-ignorant. When you are referring to URL - do you mean the web address of my myspace account or?????? and where would I find my friend in Long Beach's ISP address? I am so sorry, if this is too much of a pain, don't sweat it. Thanks for your help! MBV
Yeah... the URL of your profile (where people click on the map link from your profile). The IP address of your friend you would have to get from him. There are some cases where someone might not show where they physically are. For example AOL routes all AOl users through their central data center (in Virginia), so AOl users show as being in Virginia.
http://www.myspace.com/eatabigfathairydick that's my URL - please excuse the gross reference, I was in a bad mood that day. I usually have my profile as private but will make it public for the next 15 minutes so you can check it out. I have the geo visitor icon in my "Television Shows" section underneath the big huge picture of "Degrassi Jr. High Old School". Thanks!
I am on Earthlink. Where my bilp shows up depends on what number I use. Like AOL many times I show up in Virginia. Shannon
If you click it from your "raw" URL, I see people from the Long Beach area (if you zoom into the southern California area I see 4 different people): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=748138
One more thing, what does "Raw" URL mean? You were afraid to write that knowing I would ask, huh? ha ha.
Thanks again for all of your help and advice! I was basically looking for something that would show me WHO is checking out my profile. You know, which ex-bf are still lurking, which present lover's ex gfs are lurking. Myspace, creating paranoia and bringing forth the complete demise of social graces EVERYWHERE! Take care! MBV
I have a similar problem through my site - I'd like to know where and how the tool pulls its hits in the last 24 hours from to debug my problem. For instance, when perusing my site's recent visitors, I know I have hits from Florida, California, England, etc., but only my location (Atlanta, GA) shows on the map. I located the html in the parent directory (http://www.jmcrane.com/geolocator.html) on my site so that any access to www.jmcrane.com would be noted on the map, and put references to the html file in subdirectories, e.g. (http://www.jmcrane.com/weblog/) Have I inserted the code correctly to pull all visitors visiting the domain www.jmcrane.com?
I just went to your blog and it shows me correctly. Are you *sure* you've had visitors from other places?
Yes, as noted in my site's visitor logs which also logs access over the past 24 hours *however* I recently enabled the tool (last 30 min), so are the data points logged through IP access to the html code? If that is the case, then it is working correctly. Does digitalpoint log the visitors in a local database for storage?
Right... it's only going to log users that have seen a page with the code on it. Visitors (just IP address and longitude/latitude) are stored in a DB on this end (only for 24 hours).
Cheers - thx for the info. A page explaining the technical details would be nice for people like me who like to know them. I originally thought it did something wickedly intricate like tap information from one of the main internet routers around the world, so it could access 24 hours of info on the fly, but the way you describe it makes much more sense.
Hehe... no... not that fancy. I've been meaning to throw together a "how it's done" page, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.