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su.pr click count is incorrect
Here's something interesting I felt necessary to point out. The su.pr click count is overinflated and flat out wrong. In fact, I think it is lying to us. :)
When I post something to twitter from my su.pr account, within seconds, it has 10 or 15 clicks.
When I post something from bit.ly to my twitter account, this doesn't happen.
You can't tell me this is from bots and other services scraping twitter feeds because it only happens with su.pr and not other services.
Care to explain yourself su.pr?
When I post something to twitter from my su.pr account, within seconds, it has 10 or 15 clicks.
When I post something from bit.ly to my twitter account, this doesn't happen.
You can't tell me this is from bots and other services scraping twitter feeds because it only happens with su.pr and not other services.
Care to explain yourself su.pr?
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Inappropriate?We track all clicks to a page including both humans and bots. We usually have multiple bots clicking on anything within a minute from it being posted. Some services like to have these clicks filtered. Su.pr click count does not filter bots, duplicate clicks, or other forms of automation.
The counter is also real time: every time we answer a redirect, we immediately increment the su.pr counter and display that. Other services may not be as real time as su.pr is.
I hope this helped.
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?I've often experienced 8+ clicks literally within the first second of posting a link to Twitter, with click counts in or nearly in the double digits when the Twitter post appears in the Recent posts list after just the previous second clicking [Post] button. All before ever refreshing page.
Are you saying all this inflated click count is from bots and not at all a calculation error on Su.pr's end? Because this seems to happen within a fraction of a second and it seems difficult even for a bot to be that quick at accessing content published that very second. Also, I've noticed calculation errors in Retweet counts frequently and seemingly arbitrarily on all my posts' stats pages, often doubling or more the actual retweet count for a given post that are listed on the stats page of the post. Which makes me less inclined to believe the accuracy of Su.pr's click count reporting.
I really think if you're absolutely certain that bots are causing this inflated click count, that you should separate out the bots from organic clicks, if not in the click count total, then in their respective stats pages, so users can at least see the ratio of bots to organic traffic their links are receiving. It would be an important and useful statistic for users to have.
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