Comments on: Social Bookmarking Widgets: AddThis vs ShareThis.

By: Samples

Samples — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:58:09 +0000

I’ve removed [censored] from my blogs and added addthis to give more options for sharing. I’ve used sharethis in the past and have always migrated back to addthis.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:12:57 +0000

We also used ShareThis but after a few months we moved our site to AddThis. You can read this story here http://www.qarchive.org/lab/?p=224

By: Tom Spano

Tom Spano — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:28:45 +0000

ShareThis is way more feature rich and reliable. And their analytics tools are extremely informative.

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 28 May 2011 07:00:35 +0000

would the sharethis be a better option now as lately they have the stream feature which will bring a lot of traffic to your site which is what some webmaster say but i dont have any proof so would be great for some feedback on this.

By: Muskie

Muskie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:30:31 +0000

I was using AddThis or code from them, not there plugin, then I got Jetpack with its ShareDaddy support, now I downloaded the WordPress AddThis 2.0 plugin, but honestly I just liked putting in the code where I wanted it in my theme… Of course I’ll probably lose out on stats, but I think I’ve OD’d on stats anyway.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:30:37 +0000

I use both, and I think that I´ll move to Share this, because Add This is giving me some problems.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:35:20 +0000

That is unfortunate par of using third party widgests on our websites- we rely on their ability to always be up and running.

Sorry to hear about your trouble Alexis. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Alexis Wilke

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:14:38 +0000

And today addthis.com has several servers down and doesn’t work at all! 8-(

I’d had no problem in a long time, but that one slows down all the websites because it tries to load the image and the drop down (which personally I like, but I understand your problem with it as it can actually cover up something else and that’s a problem…)

Anyway, I hope it comes back soon!

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:29:15 +0000

I threw out addthis after encountering serious speed problems. I now use http://www.Pluzit.com . No speed problems so far.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:31:48 +0000

Michael,
Thanks for stopping by. If you can manage to do your own bookmarks like this you probably better off. Any time you implement a javascript code of a third party you are at the mercy of their servers. For me AddThis is working well, so far I have never seen any downtimes on their side.

By: Michael Hendrickx

Michael Hendrickx — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:28:39 +0000

I use AddThis on my site, and the part which I don’t like about it, is the flash tracking cookie it builds in. Sometimes it creates a 15px white border at the top, and it looks bad (I have a black background in my title).

While the stats are great, i think I might opt for my own set of buttons. They are “just links” in the end, and the top ones are twitter, fb, digg and google.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:23:36 +0000

Nate,

Thanks for stopping by and clarifying…. I was not sure if ShareThis ever added SSL support… This explains why AddThis is more visible on tons of online stores.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:26:36 +0000

I agree with Vlad. After spending several hours implementing and customizing ShareThis, I realized they don’t support SSL? Very bizarre. There is no excuse not to offer the scripts with ssl support.

AddThis however does, so this is what I am now using and I am very happy with it so far.

ShareThis really missed the boat on this one.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:26:44 +0000

@Mike,

I sure need to update the post. I initially used the “Share This” widget but then switched to “Add This”. I believe at the time I made final decission Share This did not offer support for secure pages, which I needed for a client of mine.

Thanks for the heads up, I will update the post.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:12:41 +0000

Interestingly you write near the beginning that you have chosen “Share This” yet clearly the tool at the top of this post is by “Add This.”

What gives?
Mike

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:24:28 +0000

John,

Following extentions are specifically written for Joomla:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-sharing/social-bookmarking/5070 – ShareThis

http://www.addthis.com/tools/joomla – AddThis

I have not tried those myself since I rarely use Joomla. But I am sure they should work well. Let me know if you tried any of the two and how did it work out for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: John Mosier

John Mosier — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:10:38 +0000

Is anyone using Addthis or sharethis with Joomla?

By: Jeff Wong

Jeff Wong — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:19:52 +0000

Hello again Vlad, I just wanted to check in and see how things were going. We’ve just made some huge enhancements recently. Our menu is optimized for every user—every menu optimizes for each individual user. We also have over 170 service, thanks to all the open service directory. We’ve opened up our directory for any service, utility, or social bookmarks to join.

I know you’ve blogged us on several occasions, and I wanted to get your opinion on any changes you’d like to see. Let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts. You can email me, or express ideas on our forum (http://www.addthis.com/forum)

Thanks!

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:27:40 +0000

Thanks Michael… Will be corrected.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:33:43 +0000

You have a pretty embarrassing typo. You called “Sharethis” “Showthis” twice. No worries!