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We share our experience about what happens when tweeting a link to Twitter and posting to Facebook. We immediately saw some bots hitting our site which was strange. The referral traffic however, did not change noticeably.

Here is the traffic we saw immediately after posting our article.

Twitter

52.27.2.86 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)

54.36.149.170 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.2; News; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)

23.96.208.137 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)

144.76.22.203 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

54.77.111.217 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; bot@linkfluence.com)

51.80.40.163 LivelapBot/0.2 (http://site.livelap.com/crawler)

74.6.168.213 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

80.252.171.70 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Twingly Recon; twingly.com)

17.142.154.81 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10101) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

94.23.232.75 Ruby

199.59.150.182 Twitterbot/1.0

Facebook

Traffic was mostly from the facebook bot:

31.13.113.65 facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

173.252.115.7 facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

173.252.124.61 facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

....

Also it look like facebook crawls as iPhone also

173.252.124.123 Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 1122 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.4.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15C202 Safari/604.1

....

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