TrackBot: The Trakzor Competitor

Posted by Nick O'Neill on August 13th, 2007 11:15 AM

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Trackbot Screenshot One of the most popular posts on my blog has been my article about the Trakzor application. Trakzor enabled you to view visitors to your profile. A similar application, TrackBot, has just launched and provides even more features. The coolest aspect of this application is that all visits to your profile page are successfully tracked. It’s almost like a Google analytics of Facebook. The only difference is the factors that TrackBot tracks. You can view statistics regarding the total number of visits, the number of visits by gender, the number of your friends that visit and anonymous visits as well. This application is a really useful tool and I think the developers did an excellent job on this one. The one downfall of this application is the massive ad that is displayed at the bottom of the page. Literally half of the page is filled by an ad for the Post Secret application. Not a serious problem but it is somewhat distracting. If you want to get your profile traffic statistics, go grab the TrackBot application.

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Nick – do many of your friends use either of these tracking apps and, if so, how do you feel about it? I've seen a total of two people using Tracksor in my network, and although I'm more than happy to use Google Analytics on my blog, using a Facebook application which tells me exactly who, what, and when, just seems a little bit on the creepy side. I'll admit that one side of me wants to use this app from a wannabe Web professional standpoint, but the other side knows how strange my friends would think I am. How do all the other AllFacebook readers feel about tracking apps?

Comment by N.Cauldwell — August 13, 2007 @ 7:56 am

I believe this should be made illegal to use within Facebook because of privacy issues. Surely, I wouldn't want other people to know that I visited their profile.

Comment by Guk — August 13, 2007 @ 8:20 am

How do all the other AllFacebook readers feel about tracking apps?

Comment by N.Cauldwell — August 13, 2007 @ 8:56 am

I believe this should be made illegal to use within Facebook because of privacy issues. Surely, I wouldn't want other people to know that I visited their profile.

Comment by Guk — August 13, 2007 @ 9:20 am

looks like facebook might have had a word with themNew Note on app pageThere is no way to tell exactly WHO has visited your profile without his or her explicit consent.We respect our users' privacy and adhere strictly to Facebook's policy.As such, we will not track anyone without his or her explicit consent. In order to find out who has visited your profile, you must satisfy two conditions.Firstly, visitors to your profile can only be tracked if they have added this application and disabled "Hide Name From Other Track Bots" (default is on) in the privacy settings page. Secondly, you must also disable "Hide Name From Other Track Bots" in your own privacy setting.In short, if you want to see who has visited your profile, you must allow others to see your visits, plus, they must give you consent to see theirs.Discuss it here:http://upenn.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=1722752…..

Comment by mike — August 15, 2007 @ 10:36 pm

looks like facebook might have had a word with them

New Note on app page

There is no way to tell exactly WHO has visited your profile without his or her explicit consent.

We respect our users' privacy and adhere strictly to Facebook's policy.

As such, we will not track anyone without his or her explicit consent. In order to find out who has visited your profile, you must satisfy two conditions.

Firstly, visitors to your profile can only be tracked if they have added this application and disabled "Hide Name From Other Track Bots" (default is on) in the privacy settings page. Secondly, you must also disable "Hide Name From Other Track Bots" in your own privacy setting.

In short, if you want to see who has visited your profile, you must allow others to see your visits, plus, they must give you consent to see theirs.

Discuss it here:
http://upenn.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=172275278...

Comment by mike — August 15, 2007 @ 11:36 pm

"The coolest aspect of this application is that all visits to your profile page are successfully tracked.." I think u should say also that both people (users and visitor) MUST have installed this app, it could misleading this phrase! (yep, it worked for me!;)

Comment by Francesco — August 19, 2007 @ 12:31 am

“The coolest aspect of this application is that all visits to your profile page are successfully tracked..” I think u should say also that both people (users and visitor) MUST have installed this app, it could misleading this phrase! (yep, it worked for me!;)

Comment by Francesco — August 19, 2007 @ 4:31 am