Hack of the Day – Xing

I have been using Xing for close to eight years. And I have tried the Premium feature for a little while. But luckily my card run out and that solved the hassle ton cancel my account 😉
However, have you every seen this on your front page:

The “Profile Visitors” wall. Whenever somebody views your Xing profile, an entry is shown, sometimes even telling you how that person has found you. And given our deepest desire to know everything, we certainly want to know who those people are. Granted, first-hand contacts like the second from the top I should know and find easily if I remember their names. But what about the other two? Who are they? How are we connected?

To solve that urgent need, several ways are possible. The most easiest one is to go to your own profile page. On top of that, you can see the following bar:

Again, the same people as on the front page and a few more. Now that a look at the source code of your profile page. Search the HTML code for this string: “Visitors to your profile“. And there you have all the names of your five last visitors. Pretty easy!

Another way to discover your “fans” is using a Xing application/web page. Simple browse to “Xing is 10” page (https://tenyears.xing.com/en/), click on “Go to your statistics“, log in and scroll down to “Profile Visitors”. And again, you have the most recent three visitors of your profile. And you can even click their name to view their profile page. Magic 🙂