How to find a Facebook referrer?

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  benhopkins · Member · Jul 18, 2009 at 9:56 am

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  I’ve received a lot of hits from a Facebook link. It’s a bit of mystery as I haven’t posted it and I haven’t mentioned my site to anyone that I know.

  If I click the referrer link it goes straight to the generic leaving Facebook page: http://facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=104986811924&h=vvT2_&u=54he2&ref=mf

  Is there a way of finding who posted it?

  http://icelandonscreen.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 18, 2009 at 10:25 am

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  Unfortunately, I’ve never had any luck decoding FB links. I suppose the sid=104986811924 means something, but if you replace a user ID with it, it goes to the same blank page. Could be a private page, I suppose, but I think FB’s links are just pretty borked generally. And deliberately. God knows why.

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  benhopkins · Member · Jul 18, 2009 at 10:32 am

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  Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps the mystery fan will make himself known somehow…