The ShareThis team has been hard at work on a number of things lately, and three of them are now available.
Reporting
This is a big one that lots of people have been waiting for, myself included. When the ShareThis team and I first spoke about working together, this was an item we talked about quite a bit. Having a centralized service makes providing interesting reporting possible. The current reports are quite nice and are more than I’d have ever been able to offer:
There are snazzy little effects for the charts – good fun stuff that isn’t annoying.
I’m surprised that e-mail is as far down on the list for my site as it is. I wonder what would happen if I swapped the active tab to be the E-mail tab instead of the Social Web tab.
I’m also excited about what can still be done in this area, and some of the ideas I’ve heard are pretty interesting.
All of you WordPress folks that have registered and have been using the 2.x version of ShareThis now have a nice set of reports available to you when you log in to sharethis.com. I look forward to hearing about which of the stats you find most interesting.
TypePad Support
A ShareThis TypePad plugin is now available. A warm welcome to our TypePad friends, I know many of you have asked me for this and I’m thrilled it’s available now.
Blogger Support
A ShareThis Blogger plugin is now available. Same as above – many of you have asked me for this and I’m very pleased it’s available now for you.
It’s great to see ShareThis growing and thriving as it is, and a lot of fun to be a part of it.
Alex thanks for blogger plugin.I was usinng add this but it opens a new page.thanks
Alex, I was using ShareThis from a long time ago. Recently I saw that my wordpress blog was making a few requests to sharethis server at loading time. It would redirect any visitor to your server to track him before the social sites. I am no longer using ShareThis as I don`t want to add to my loading time in exchange for something that I would not use. All I want is just to help the visitors to easily social tag or email about the post. Anyway I keep following your work and Crowd Favorite. There are a lot of interesting things coming from you.
[…] details on the release can be found on the ShareThis Blog or from Alex King, the developer. Subscribe to comments Comment | Trackback | Share […]
[…] A nice little report on the ShareThis plugin/project, and links to TypePad and Blogger plugins as well. […]
Todor– that’s correct, they can’t provide the reporting information without tracking the data.
Got a suggestion for ShareThis? We want to hear it! Check out the “ShareThis Wish List” thread at http://forums.sharet[...]is-wish-list
We look forward to hearing from you!
I’m confused. I have the plugin installed but I don’t see in my admin panel any page with results like the one pictured above. Am I missing something? Where would I find such reports?
We hope to deliver these reports directly into the WP dashboard in the future, but for now you need to log in to your account on sharethis.com to see them.
Hey alex, is there anyway to make it so “share this” isnt automatically added to your RSS feed?
Not at this time, we can change it so that you can. I’ll see about documenting the code changes in the ShareThis forum so you don’t have to wait for a new version.
Please post any follow-up in the ShareThis forum, thanks.