MySpace IP Tracking - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

warrrreagl · 10-31-2006, 08:21 AM

My search turned up nothing about this on TFP, so here goes.

A couple dozen of us TFPers are fooling around with MySpace and adding each other as friends, blah blah blah. Nothing serious at all, and certainly nothing to replace TFP. Some of us go months without even logging on. However, there is one particular MySpace "entity" who I thought was a TFPer but now I'm starting to wonder based on the nature of some of her comments and messages. They just don't match up with the TFPer of that same name. It's not any abuse or stalking or anything like that - it's just uncharacteristic comments.

Therefore, how can I track someone's IP address from MySpace? I know what city this person is supposed to be in, so that's all I needed to check. I don't want a street address - just an IP. I've seen several online forums that debated whether or not this was even possible, but that's not my question. I don't want to know IF it's possible, I want to know HOW to do it if it's possible.

Again, it's no biggie, but if anybody knows how, I'd like to try it.

filtherton · 10-31-2006, 08:28 AM

I know that there was a rash of people claiming to be able to do what you want to do, but they were mostly just spammers. I think it has been done, but every time it has the folks at myspace made changes and it ended up not working for very long.

Did you ask the TFPer in question if it really is them?

Glory's Sun · 10-31-2006, 09:47 AM

afaik, there's no way to track the IP addresses. You can set up a tracker to see who visits your profile but the ones I've seen aren't complex enough to track IP's.

Jinn · 10-31-2006, 09:57 AM

The IPLocation for my IP address is Lewellen, Nebraska. I'm nowhere near there, I can assure you of that.

Even if you got their IP, there's a high liklihood that it wouldn't show up. Location of IP ranges is entirely optional, and usually up to the ISP.

Furthermore, tracking a visiting IP via mySpace's limited script support would be rather difficult. You're better off doing some low-tech snooping. Send 'em a TFP message, and ask them to read it when you see them on mySpace.

Toaster126 · 10-31-2006, 02:23 PM

Are you sure this isn't just a case of someone acting differently on two different websites?

Fly · 10-31-2006, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Toaster126

Are you sure this isn't just a case of someone acting differently on two different websites?

that's kinda the route i was leaning towards too............

yotta · 11-09-2006, 02:30 AM

I've done this before, you just need to hotlink an image stored on a server you have access to logs on.

USMC6531 · 11-12-2006, 11:55 AM

have you mailed them here and asked them if it is them?

10-31-2006, 08:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	MySpace IP Tracking My search turned up nothing about this on TFP, so here goes. A couple dozen of us TFPers are fooling around with MySpace and adding each other as friends, blah blah blah. Nothing serious at all, and certainly nothing to replace TFP. Some of us go months without even logging on. However, there is one particular MySpace "entity" who I thought was a TFPer but now I'm starting to wonder based on the nature of some of her comments and messages. They just don't match up with the TFPer of that same name. It's not any abuse or stalking or anything like that - it's just uncharacteristic comments. Therefore, how can I track someone's IP address from MySpace? I know what city this person is supposed to be in, so that's all I needed to check. I don't want a street address - just an IP. I've seen several online forums that debated whether or not this was even possible, but that's not my question. I don't want to know IF it's possible, I want to know HOW to do it if it's possible. Again, it's no biggie, but if anybody knows how, I'd like to try it. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

10-31-2006, 09:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	The IPLocation for my IP address is Lewellen, Nebraska. I'm nowhere near there, I can assure you of that. Even if you got their IP, there's a high liklihood that it wouldn't show up. Location of IP ranges is entirely optional, and usually up to the ISP. Furthermore, tracking a visiting IP via mySpace's limited script support would be rather difficult. You're better off doing some low-tech snooping. Send 'em a TFP message, and ask them to read it when you see them on mySpace. __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

10-31-2006, 02:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
Toaster126 Extreme moderation Location: Kansas City, yo.	Are you sure this isn't just a case of someone acting differently on two different websites? __________________ "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand) "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

11-09-2006, 02:30 AM	#7 (permalink)
yotta Irresponsible	I've done this before, you just need to hotlink an image stored on a server you have access to logs on. __________________ I am Jack's signature.

11-12-2006, 11:55 AM	#8 (permalink)
USMC6531 Upright Location: Florida	have you mailed them here and asked them if it is them? __________________ "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. "

10-31-2006, 08:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
filtherton Junkie Location: In the land of ice and snow.	I know that there was a rash of people claiming to be able to do what you want to do, but they were mostly just spammers. I think it has been done, but every time it has the folks at myspace made changes and it ended up not working for very long. Did you ask the TFPer in question if it really is them?

10-31-2006, 09:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
Glory's Sun Registered User	afaik, there's no way to track the IP addresses. You can set up a tracker to see who visits your profile but the ones I've seen aren't complex enough to track IP's.