identifying locations and/or sources of Facebook and/or Twitter posts
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Please advise how a blogger can locate and/or identify parties who are posting their posts on either Facebook or Twitter. I just checked recent post and it has 6 posts to Facebook besides the 1 post I made to my Facebook account. Hopefully, there is a way to get to the bottom of why a viewer would snatch your posts but not leave a comment, nor a like.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It certainly is a privacy issue when an unknown party is able to publish your materials randomly. I probably won’t be posting any other articles as this is not right, especially when the posters are not courteous enough to state that they have posted on Facebook or leave some type of a trail as a follower or friend.
Thank you for your help!
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Plus this was a very personal post, not one about health or how to quit smoking which you would want to go public. It was a tribute to my family and mother. You definitely should be able to follow your posts for copyright violations. Live and learn!
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I’m sorry but WordPress.com cannot provide access to information that’s not provided to them.
when an unknown party is able to publish your materials randomly
I don’t know what you mean by that. Anyone can choose to promote any post they find on any public blog anywhere they wish to.
Also I don’t either expect or demand reciprocity. I don’t track the social networking behavior of my followers and assume they have better things to do than tracking mine.
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You definitely should be able to follow your posts for copyright violations.
You can use copyscape http://www.copyscape.com/
Read also > Content Theft – What to Do http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/ -
Then it is a glitch in their system as that information certainly should be traceable especially in light of being able to track spammer comments and other matters.
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Thanks for the copy scape idea but that doesn’t get to the bottom of lack of discretion on the part of someone posting a personal article on their own Facebook page. It wasn’t like it was a recipe, a self-help guide of some sort or a quote. Oh well!
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You posted it here > How to Stop Smoking in 4 Easy & Natural Steps > http://thorns4roses.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/how-to-stop-smoking-in-4-easy-natural-steps/ and provided sharing buttons for others to use.
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If you publish a post publicly and provide sharing buttons, anyone can share it whenever they want to.
Even if you don’t provide sharing buttons, as long as you publish a post publicly, an interested viewer could manually share it via Facebook or Twitter.
We do not track who shares what on third-party networks as it would be an invasion of their privacy.
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…you can change the privacy level of your posts (on the editing page), or even your blog by following the instructions here:
http://thorns4roses.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
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Thanks, johnnytesting!
For more details, see http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ and http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
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The entire article isn’t posted, when people use the sharing buttons. About 25 words are, plus a thumbnail and a link.
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I will check into all this at a later time and thank you all for your input but reading briefly, I see
“an invasion of their privacy….”
Who is the most important person on WordPress? I would hope the person writing the article and their privacy being INVADED!!!
That comment JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!
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Think of it this way: other blogs linking to you and other people sharing links to your posts is analagous to people talking about you. People are talking about you all the time; you cannot prevent that.
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Thank you so much for your comments. I will definitely be getting back with further comments on additional points of interests very soon.
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