Comments on: Ubervu Steals Your Blog Posts AND Your Comments

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:01:16 +0000

Hi,

I wanted to delete all my tweets permanently but I realized that my tweets are saved by UberVu and other sites along with the RT and replies that I got from others.
I want all of my tweets removed. How did you suggest I go about getting my tweets removed from Ubervu?

Thanks

By: Pleasure Piratess

Pleasure Piratess — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:51:05 +0000

I’m am offended and disturbed that some companies feel it is okay to steal another persons work to promote their site. Why would anyone click a link anyway, when the who whole posts are right there? Obsurd!

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:57:45 +0000

Thank you for your response, Dragos. Your quick response has been duly noted, and I appreciate the efforts you and your team are making to make this right.

By: RonLey

RonLey — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:17:57 +0000

I am getting this kind of pingbacks and trackbacks at my blog too. Never know about this thing until I read your blog via @AlanBleiweiss tweet.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:13:57 +0000

Christina
Thanks for blogging about this discovery. I just read the article and comments and saw that Dragos from UberVu commented, saying as a result of your article they’re taking action.

I then immediately went to my site because I had assumed the exact same thing you had previously and was NOT happy reading what they did. I’ve now clicked through a half dozen instances of their pingbacks on various articles from my site and there’s no content over there scraped from my site. I don’t know if it was never there or if it was removed as part of an en-masse effort related to how they responded to this article.

In any case, I really appreciate that you alerted us to this!

By: Night Owl Mama

Night Owl Mama — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:15:25 +0000

It never seizes to amaze me how this happens to so many I’m so terrified to go look and see if any of my content is there but curiosity has me clicking the link to have a look. Nothing like stealing a blogs thunder!

By: Blogger beware of content scrappers | The Angel Forever

Blogger beware of content scrappers | The Angel Forever — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:01:51 +0000

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By: Xmasdolly

Xmasdolly — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:40:38 +0000

i happened to see your tweet, and I was curious so I popped over, and I’m glad I did. Dang girl, you’re a real Sherlock Jones, and good too! You go girl, and that letter they sent you “glitch” my fanny! Give me a break! Do they really expect you to believe that one? That part where they say the purpose was to show you interesting analytics about your content… what I want to know is did you ask them too? Well, if you don’t mind I’d like to pass this on to a few people I know too! Unbelievable!

By: Dragos

Dragos — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:14:39 +0000

Hi Christine,

I’m the cofounder of uberVU, I’m the one who e-mailed you today about the glitch in the system. We have removed your content as promised. We are also working on removing everyone else’s comments as we speak.

First of all, I want to apologize for this whole situation. We are a social media analytics startup, we build analytics. We do not want to take your community away from your site.

On the contrary, the purpose was to show you some interesting analytics about your content and your community that you could use to foster and grow your community – like Google Analytics but for social media.

Offending you defeats this whole purpose. That’s why we are now reviewing all our policies and de-indexing bloggers’ content from the site. We have a small team so this takes a bit of time but we’re getting there. You’ll probably still find some links to our site in Google, but we’re de-indexing the actual content from our site.

Again, I apologize for any trouble we may have caused and want to assure you we’re working on fixing this for everyone.

You have my contact details so please e-mail me if I can help in any other way.

By: living with lindsay

living with lindsay — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:24:19 +0000

Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. I just had to ask them to remove me from their index. I didn’t find any comments, but all of the Twitter reactions on my posts were there. Annoying.