Problem in analysing referrers

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    piyushgulati31 · Member ·

    Today, my blog recorded a referrer from twitter. I was very surprised to see this because I’m not on Twitter and no content of my blog has been published there by me. I want to know as to how and why, a twitter referrer was recorded. I’m afraid that someone might be copying my content and posting to twitter. How do I rectify this ?
    Kindly help me
    Thank you

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I’m afraid that someone might be copying my content and posting to twitter.

    Someone didn’t copy your content. They just shared a link to your site.

    You display a Twitter sharing button at the bottom of all your posts, so any visitor to your site can use that button to share a link to a post on their Twitter account. If any of their Twitter followers then clicked on that link, they’ll get taken to your post and you’ll see a referral from Twitter.

    Even if you didn’t display that sharing button, anyone can still just copy the link from a post on your site and manually paste that into a new tweet on Twitter.

    The only way to prevent people sharing your content on social media is to set your site to private so only you have access to it.

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    piyushgulati31 · Member ·

    Thanks a lot for your reply. I have now understood what you meant. I have no problem with someone sharing my content, as long as the viewers know who the real author is !
    Have a great day @kokkieh
    -Piyush | The Thinking Pen

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