Help Topics / FAQ
Getting Started
How do I Copy & Paste?
How to Subscribe/Renew
Trakzor and others are free. Why do you charge for Bad-Ass Tracker?
How does Bad-Ass Tracker track?
How do I send the identifcation code to a large number of friends?
Can I use a picture of my own to use as the identification picture?
I want to identify someone without them knowing it's me
My friend logs on from both home and work. Can I identify them from both places?
What do all the question marks in my log mean?
Why are some pictures in my log faded?
Why does a picture in the log show the persons's old profile picture?
Does a user have to be logged into MySpace to be tracked?
Do I have to be logged into MySpace to use this web site?
What is "Know Who?" used for?
How can I know who made an unidentified log entry?
Where can I find a user's MySpace Friend ID?
What does "Guess By IP" do?
What is "Trace" used for?
What does it mean if a search engine or bot shows up in my log?
What do "School Search" and "Name Search" events mean?
How do I track who views my blogs?
How do I know which blog is referred to when I see a "Viewed blog entry and comments" entry?
Keeping tracking information up-to-date
Accuracy of the city/state/country shown in "Location"
Do you have to curse to sell software?
Getting Started
1. Edit your MySpace profile, and put this code in your "Headline" in addition to whatever else you have there now. This code tracks who visits your profile, who searches for you and how, and if your profile is marked private, it will show you who visits your profile, but is unable to see it.2. E-mail (using MySpace) all people you want to track the following code (copy and paste). A bulletin will NOT work!! If you want to e-mail a large number of MySpace users, I recommend using FriendTools.
3. As people begin to open up the e-mail you sent them, they will start showing up in your log.
How do I Copy & Paste?
You must know how to copy & paste in order to use Bad-Ass Tracker. If you do not know how, check out this tutorial. Or you can search for other tutorials. Again, you must know how to copy & paste to use Bad-Ass Tracker!How to Subscribe/Renew
To subscribe or renew an existing subscription, go to the subscription page.Trakzor and others are free. Why do you charge for Bad-Ass Tracker?
First and foremost, we are the BEST! Secondly, TANSTAAFL. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Trakzor requires you to spam your friends with bulletins advertising their product. Then they also require you to show their "You've been tracked!!!" graphic on your profile page, which not only advertises their product (again), it also makes your visitors feel somehow violated knowing they've been "tracked". Then when you go to their web site, you get (you guessed it) more ads! And other free trackers operate the same way. Not to mention, some trackers are outright scams used to get your personal information for the purpose of spamming. We will NEVER sell your personal information to anyone! In return we charge a small subscription fee of $10 in hopes that the low cost along with word of mouth will help pay for the costs to develop and maintain Bad-Ass Tracker.How dooes Bad-Ass Tracker track?
There are two methods that trackers can use to identify a MySpace user visiting your site:- Storing a cookie on the user's browser. This is the most-effective method of tracking. But if the user clear's his/her cookies, then the tracking infromation is lost.
- Recording a user's IP address and sometimes browser information as well. However, a user's IP address can change without notice.
How do I send the identifcation code to a large number of friends?
Unfortunately, there is no short cut. You cannot use a bulletin. We use a tool called FriendTools to mass e-mail a large number of friends.Can I use a picture of my own to use as the identification picture?
No. Currently, you must use one of our identification pictures.I want to identify someone without them knowing it's me
Sometimes you may want to send someone identification code without them knowing it's you sending it. Perhaps an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. For situations like this, I recommend creating another MySpace account with a default profile picture that is not your own. Then you send the e-mail with the identification code from the new MySpace account. Of course, there is no guarantee that the user will even open the e-mail.My friend logs on from both home and work. Can I identify them from both places?
Sure. Send the person the identification code in an e-mail both during the day, and at night too. The user must check his/her e-mail at both places.What do all the question marks in my log mean?
Question marks mean the user is unknown to Bad-Ass Tracker. Turning those question marks into real faces is done by identifying the user to Bad-Ass Tracker. This can be done either by sending users identification code, or by identifying the user by clicking on "Know Who?". Even once all your friends are identified, you will still have users who are unknown to Bad-Ass Tracker show up as question marks. As Bad-Ass Tracker's database grows, this will occur less and less. If you would prefer to not see the unidentified entries at all, you can turn them off by checking the "Display known entries only" option in Settings.Why are some pictures in my log faded?
A faded picture is a guess based on the user's IP address. When Bad-Ass Tracker cannot positively identify a user, and there is only guess possible, it will display the guessed user's picture, faded.Why does a picture in the log show the person's old profile picture?
Bad-Ass Tracker caches users' profile pictures for performance reasons. If you click on the user's picture, it will be updated then. Otherwise it will be updated by another user or Bad-Ass Tracker itself at another time.Does a user have to be logged into MySpace to be tracked?
No. Tracking has nothing to do with whether a user is logged into MySpace or not.Do I have to be logged into MySpace to use this web site?
No, but you really should be. If you are not logged into MySpace, when you click on a friend's picture who has a private profile, you will get the "This profile is set to private..." message from MySpace. Also, if your own profile is private, code generation could be affected. In short, it is highly-recommended that you be logged into MySpace before you log into Bad-Ass Tracker.What is "Know Who?" used for?
A "Know Who?" link will appear under every question mark or faded picture. If you know which user made the log entry, you can click on this link and identify the user. This will identify the user who made the current log entry, and all surrounding log entries as well. How can I know who made an unidentified log entry?How can I know who made an unidentified log entry?
Sometimes you will be able to manually identify an unidentified user by matching up a log entry with an e-mail or comment sent to you by the user. Take for instance, take entry 228174 in the below log:
The date and time is "Oct 29, 2007 9:46 PM". Well in your e-mail Inbox, you see that you received an e-mail at the same date and time:
So we can see that KRIS is the user who made the log entry. So now you need to find KRIS 's friend ID and then click on "Know Who?"to identify KRIS as the user who mad the log entry.
Where can I find a user's MySpace Friend ID?
STEP 1. Go to the MySpace page of the person you are identifying. If you are trying to find your own friend ID, go to your own MySpace page. Look at the top of your browser's window in the Address bar for the text "friendid=". The number following the "=" sign is the person's MySpace Friend ID. In the example below, the person's friend ID is 125861700. If you do not see the person's friend ID, go onto STEP 2.
STEP 2. Click on the "View All of Friends" link. Look at the top of your browser's window in the Address bar for the text "friendID=". The number following the "=" sign is the person's MySpace Friend ID. In the example below, the person's friend ID is 125861700. If you still can not find the person's friend ID, go onto STEP 3.
STEP 3. Go back to the user's main profile page. Click on "View My Pics". You must be logged in to do this! Click on the "View All of Friends" link. Look at the top of your browser's window in the Address bar for the text "friendID=". The number following the "=" sign is the person's MySpace Friend ID. In the example below, the person's friend IS is 125861700.
What does "Guess By IP" do?
If you click on the "Guess By IP" link under a question mark, Bad-Ass Tracker will show users who have been recorded from similar IP addresses. The entries are in date order, newest first. The reason for this is just in case a user unplugs his/her cable modem, and receives a new IP address when he/she plugs it back in. This can help identify when that happens.What is "Trace" used for?
When you click on "Trace" under an IP address in your log, a traceroute is run from an arbitrary starting point, to that IP address. We currently use the University of California at Berkeley as our arbitrary starting point. Traceroute is a computer network tool used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network. The DNS host names in the output very often have geographic information in them, which sometimes can be as specific as a city neighborhood. The country, state, and city abbreviations are typically easy to figure out. Let's dissect the output of a traceroute to an IP address here in Jacksonville, FL:1 g6-48.inr-211-srb.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.206.3) 0.308 ms 0.246 ms 0.290 ms
2 t2-2.inr-202-reccev.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.255.42) 0.514 ms 0.456 ms 0.425 ms
3 ge-1-3-0.inr-004-reccev.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.0.49) 0.526 ms 0.464 ms 0.553 ms
"Berkeley" is our arbitrary starting point in Berkeley, CA
4 inet-oak-isp--ucb.cenic.net (137.164.24.141) 0.656 ms 0.714 ms 0.676 ms
5 dc-svl-isp--oak-isp-t1.cenic.net (137.164.40.213) 2.153 ms 2.090 ms 1.926 ms
"oak" is Oakland, CA
6 ge-7-21-131.car1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.79.44.5) 151.563 ms 6.299 ms 2.548 ms
7 ae-23-79.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.69) 2.884 ms 2.964 ms 2.800 ms
"SanJose" is San Jose, CA
8 level3-gw.sffca.ip.att.net (192.205.33.81) 4.651 ms 4.575 ms 4.667 ms
9 tbr1.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.82.42) 64.870 ms 65.030 ms 65.348 ms
"sffca" is San Francisco, CA
10 tbr1.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.10.26) 68.594 ms 68.650 ms 68.266 ms
"la2ca" is Los Angeles, CA
11 tbr1.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.10.49) 66.473 ms 66.279 ms 66.511 ms
"dlstx" is Dallas, TX
12 tbr2.hs1tx.ip.att.net (12.122.10.130) 66.844 ms 66.631 ms 66.746 ms
13 tbr1.hs1tx.ip.att.net (12.122.9.169) 66.607 ms 66.284 ms 66.620 ms
"hs1tx" is Houston, TX
14 tbr1.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.122.4.102) 66.594 ms 66.765 ms 66.620 ms
15 gar5.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.122.106.5) 65.928 ms 66.137 ms 65.877 ms
"ormfl" is Ormond Beach, FL
16 12.116.114.10 (12.116.114.10) 69.097 ms 69.285 ms 69.263 ms
17 ge-4-3-ar01.southsiderdc.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net (68.86.168.217) 69.592 ms 69.536 ms 69.372 ms
"fl.jacksvil" is Jacksonville, FL, and "southsicerdc" specifies the south side of town.
18 te-8-1-ur01.deerwood.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net (68.86.168.30) 69.469 ms 69.527 ms 69.629 ms
19 GE-0-1-ubr01.deerwood.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net (68.86.170.2) 70.474 ms 69.774 ms 69.737 ms
Deerwood is a neighborhood in Jacksonville, FL
Usually, an IP address' location doesn't get as specific as a neighborhood, but sometimes it does, and Trace can be of help.