If there was one application that every Facebook user wants, this would be it. The Footstamp application was recently created and opened up to users on an invite-only basis, allowing participants to view the users who recently visited their profile. The developers clearly put a lot of thought into the application, as there is a pretty slick design with advanced settings included, to track visitors to any user’s profile.
The application, which was first brought to our attention by Mobile Inc, is a practical G-d send for users as they can view their last 20 visitors to their profile as well as the top 20 most frequent. Every Facebook user would love access to this information, however Facebook has quickly shut down any applications which provided such information to users in the past.
My guess is that Footstamp will suffer the same fate but not before a few lucky users find out who their biggest stalkers are. Trakzor was the first to launch a profile tracking application back in 2007, however the service became less useful as Facebook began forcing the developers to add more restrictions to the application, the most significant of which was requiring users to opt-in to use the service.
Since Trakzor launched, a number of other applications attempted to surface profile visit data, however they’ve all been shut down quickly. If you happen to know the developer behind Footstamp, you may want to get an invite quickly before Facebook eliminates it from existence.
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the developers name (and profile link) is included on the link you have provided.
Comment by mike ashworth — December 17, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
Without providing specific code examples, can you explain the nature of the bug that permits a developer to acquire that information?
As a developer, I don't see any leaks that would permit me to know that my visitor Sue was stalking Tony.
The only thing I can think of is that Tony signs up for the app and an image is placed on his profile page that betrays some of Sue's cookies to the image's server? Something to do with the image server's site also being a FB Connect site?
As much as I'd like to know who's visiting my profile, I'd really prefer that FB squashed this bug so that NOBODY could see who I'm stalking.
Comment by Eric Tully — December 17, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
How does it work?
Comment by Matt Kruse — December 17, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
@Eric, head on over to http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/8...
Shaun explained how he managed to do it on his Top Visitor application in some detail. Admirably, he told Facebook about the exploit and they patched it.
Comment by Mobile Inc — December 17, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
Hey anyone know what happended to the PRIVACY LOCK on the publisher…its gone?????
Comment by Amanti Melkamu — December 17, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
You know, I think you made it 10x as likely for it to disappear by posting this =p
Comment by Navarr Tethyr Barnier — December 17, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
….first
it's been working for 2 years
i was in the beta testing and have used it since
…second
YOU SUCK for posting this – the app is gone already !!!!!!!
Comment by KRAC G — December 17, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
this was the BIGGEST sicret in FB
10x a-hole !
Comment by KRAC G — December 17, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
How do I get an invite to foot stamp? Thanks
Comment by Jay V — December 18, 2009 @ 7:36 am
thanks for making this public ad killing the most historically incredible app. on facebook, and yes … it did work for two years!
Comment by antoine g! — December 18, 2009 @ 8:31 am
If it's gone, I'm glad! Yeah, it'd be nice to know who is looking at my profile – but do you really want OTHER people to know every time you look at their profile?? Knowing that something like Footstamp is around would limit my use of Facebook…
Comment by Kate — December 18, 2009 @ 8:37 am
i'm pretty sure the point of this post was to get rid of that application.. read between the lines people
Comment by chopin — December 18, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
You’re an idiot. The app has been removed as of yesterday.
Comment by Anon — December 18, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
While the app is one thing everyone would want, but to be honest I wouldn't like this,personally. Because, firstly it reminds me of Orkut [recent visitors] and then I just don't want to know that, which is one of the reasons why I love the platform.
Comment by Sardar Mohkim Khan — December 19, 2009 @ 6:25 am
how to get invite for footstamp app??
plz help me sm1
Comment by Priyank — December 20, 2009 @ 8:41 am
Thanks for killing this fantastic app that we had been using for the last year and a half.
Due to your silly article facebook removed it now.
Comment by kevin C — December 20, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
Since it was around for two years, I wonder how many people had this application? Yikes!
Comment by Lisa — December 20, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
hope they replace it with something real good!
Comment by margret — December 21, 2009 @ 2:50 am
FB should have removed that long ago! That's against FB terms of service! Personally, I don't give a s**t anymore about who's visiting my profile. I came to my senses 1 year ago and stopped caring.
Comment by User — December 21, 2009 @ 8:14 am
There use to by a sense of "have" and "have nots" on Facebook. The true VIP club. Footstamp was amazing! You post a status update and fish for who is stalking you. The club was exclusive and NOBODY no matter how high their fake morals would have said no to an invite (dont kid your self)
Too bad that some little no-name blog MobileInc had to use this amazing app (the poster had it himself) to put his lousy blog on the radar for a day.
The next app is in the making and again a selected few will have access to it. Probably the same few! So congratulations to the no-name blogger (twitter 120 followers) that exposed it. That was your 15min of fame.
For all you fellow ex footstampers:
Guys= At least you know your market value and have some easy targets based on your stalker list (top 5 visits should do it)
Girls= Sorry you will no longer get the gratification of knowing that the ex boy firends still miss you (top 5 visits should do)
Comment by Tony — December 21, 2009 @ 8:51 am
damn! i want an invite to the next app!!!! ….. lmfao
call it the creeper defeater hahahahaha
who cares if OTHER people know your stalkin them… if ya got such an issue try not bein such a creeper! rofl
Comment by Robyn B. Holmes — December 21, 2009 @ 11:08 pm
It is pretty obvious from the outset Nick O'neill is zucking up to Mark Zuckerberg. You egocentric attention seeking sell-out. The old Soviet Union thrived because of back stabbers like you. Foot Stamp was fine until you published this junk…
Guess who will not get the next installment of Foot Stamp?
It will be back. It was killed once previously and re-emerged. It was the ultimate tool for singles. And for identifying stalkers.
Comment by Arabjude — December 23, 2009 @ 5:30 am
Just to add: It was very exclusive. Mostly wealthy public school types. Don't wish to say to much since I do not trust the OP for one second.
Knowledge is Power. Knowing people is key.
Comment by Arabjude — December 23, 2009 @ 5:37 am
loooooooooooooooooooooser…thanks a lot
Comment by robert buzzeo — December 26, 2009 @ 8:23 am
I have no idea that such app could exist
People don't be selfish and share any tip to get the next app, google doesn't seem to help on this one
Comment by Gabriel — December 27, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
I know a guy who is a friend of the developer, so I had an invite. I always said that if you bring something to the masses, they will destroy it. This is what happened. No invites for you next app!
Comment by Andy — January 1, 2010 @ 11:55 am
Words cannot express how much of a tool i think you are.
I have been using this for years and it has been fine, suddenly i see this article and it goes.
Such a c***
Comment by Jamie — January 5, 2010 @ 12:41 am
After 3 years of successful use I would like to thank the author of this and this website for helping to draw facebook’s attention to it. Despite what you claim, footstamp had been around literally for YEARS and encouraging users to get an invite ‘quickly before it was shut down’ all but admits that you were assisting in its demise. As one of the original users I would once again like to thank you for being one of those people who, whether actively or complicity, tries to ruin something for those who have what they do not.
Comment by Matthew Herren — January 8, 2010 @ 8:40 am
So we're against big brother when it comes to government but Ok with it for personal use?…Interesting that you are all so pissed at having a program you use being exposed when the very reason you use it is to expose others.More significantly, it is incredibly disturbing that your "have" violates the privacy rights of the rest of the site users. The outrage here should belong to them not to you privileged assholes. Privilege, exclusivity, and even knowledge are not justification to infringe upon the rights of others.
Comment by entropy — January 18, 2010 @ 11:33 pm
It had been shut down now. I blame the guy who wrote this… I was one of the lucky few. I think it worked by linking your profile to another webpage, so by visiting your profile people visited this external website. I guess! I could be wrong. I think Facebook is pretty ridiculous but as sad as i am, i feel like I have a chance of being socially cut off from too many people by getting rid. I think, like other social networking sites you should be able to see when people look at your data. foot stamp didnt show you info abuot the users. Just how much those users were looking at yours. I should be able to see how often people feel it is necessary to look at my profile. in a personal situation (pre-internet), you would be able to see how often people followed you but now it isn't possible to know which people are too keen. facebook relationships are supposed to be real relatinoships, and the internet allows people to adopt different personas to those they exhibit in the real world. Access to the information foot stamp makes it harder for people to adopt these personas as it would make people more conscious of their behaviours as they would eb in a face-to-face scenario. Also, if foot stamp was commonly used, it would soon cut down the amount of time people spend surfing fb, as they would realise their movements into peoples semi-private lives was being monitored by those who they seek to stalk.
There is no good reason why foot stamp shouldn't still be around.
People preach privacy, but those that do are the ones who need this hypocritical privacy to hide their own creepy activities, if you have nothing to be ashamed of, there should be no problem.
Comment by unhappy foot stamp u — March 6, 2010 @ 6:39 am
I had footstamp for two years..
(( It was a complete secret! Why would you release info like this to public.. ? facebook is so dull without it…if anyone knows of a new app.. message me!!
Comment by Aysegul Kazdal — March 11, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
Thanks for writing this article and killing the app. The hundreds of people who had it could easily have done the same thing, but we all abided by the terms of its use (though I acknowledge, not the terms of use of Facebook). All it would take would be for one tool to blurt it out to the world.
Nick, you are that guy.
Comment by Chris — April 30, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
Roughly 350.. I was user #5
Comment by J G — December 30, 2011 @ 2:42 pm
J G, can I be user 351 of the new foot stamp? Pretty please! (I'm just a nosey gal, but keep secrets)
Comment by joewkATaolDOTcom — January 19, 2012 @ 3:57 pm