Another OS trick: how many have Favorited you?

Mark Pritchard

Location: San Francisco, California,

Bio: Mark Pritchard is a fiction writer living in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. He's the author of How They Scored, a novel.

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My blogs: How They Scored; The Secret Diary of a Prisoner in the Creative Writing Gulag; SF Metblogs; Too Beautiful

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 2:16PM

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On Twitter, you have x number of followers, and you follow y others. But on OS it's not easy to see how many people have "favorited" you.

Here's one way to find at least some of the other OS members who have made you their favorite:

Make sure you have posted a recent entry in your OS blog.
Go to Google.
Type in the query:

site:open.salon.com "posted by: your_handle"

including the double quotes, but changing your_handle to your OS username.
Hit return.

The results will come up with a bunch of pages of other users whose page has the text "posted by your_handle," where your_handle is your username. The screenshot below shows the top five results I got.

How's it work? The phrase "posted by Mark Pritchard" (in my case) will only appear on a page when it appears in the Updates list on the right side of someone's page. And that only happens when a.) I am a Favorite of that person, and b.) I have recently posted an entry on my own page.

Previously: Open Salon's Mystery Tag Game