16 responses to “Addthis Vs. Sharethis”

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  nimrodjo January 30th, 2008 at 23:52

  Yep, agree with you bro…ShareThis widget is simple and easy to implement…

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  Jam January 31st, 2008 at 21:53

  I see no difference between the two. Hehe.

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  willo February 6th, 2008 at 12:52

  I too had seen AddThis, but ShareThis – now that it’s finally available to all, not just WordPress – is way better IMO. I’d like to see some kind of deeper comparison, or hear someone actually tell me the reasons why they think AddThis is better… but for now I agree in thinking ShareThis is the better choice between the two.

  Thanks for this post, yours came up top when I googled addthis vs sharethis.

  p.s. I’m using ShareThis on my blog – http://willotoons.com – and on my shop: http://shop.willotoons.com/products/geekyfantastic-guys

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  AJ February 21st, 2008 at 00:39

  Thanks for this article – helps clarify the differences between addthis and sharethis. I was hoping to talk to you more about this post but couldn’t find your contact information. I’m developing a similar widget with some additional bells & whistles and thought you could provide some feedback. Send me an email when you get the chance.

  Thanks!

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  paul February 21st, 2008 at 00:43

  Aj: Hi thanks for dropping by to my blog. basically you can contact me thru my email address at benreason at gmail if you got this..do let me know ya.. thanks.. really keen to see what you are going to develop thanks.

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  paul February 21st, 2008 at 00:45

  Willo: Thanks for dropping by ya! i never knew i came first for the search terms of addthis vs sharethis nice blog u got there.

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  Neezar April 7th, 2008 at 13:43

  Yeah, i agree with you and ShareThis have $21M fund from VC, that is much money…

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  paul April 7th, 2008 at 14:11

  Neezar: Ya 21M VC Fund is Much money

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  David Mackey August 8th, 2008 at 10:05

  Thanks for the comparison of ShareThis vs AddThis.

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  Jonas Lindqvist October 21st, 2008 at 21:23

  Hi!

  Funny that you say that Stumbleupon.com and digg.com are performing best for you. When I started with Addthis a few month ago I thought those would be the biggest also for me as everyone seems to have them as default, but… biggest for me are Google, Myspace, Facebook etc. Digg is on sixth place and Stumbleupon is very small on eleventh place. I had 500 bookmarks for September so it is a fairly good statistical base. Maybe different sites having different audiences will have different stats…but for me Sumbleupon and Digg is definitely not the best performing.

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  Acmeous December 22nd, 2008 at 14:02

  I think it in other way. I also know that if my site is bookmarked in at least 20 websites, then also it’s great for me. So the huge list of anyone matters less. But what matters to me is that which one is more usable and more noticeable. If users are not able to notice the bookmark button, then I have no benefit of using anything there. In this case i see that the AddThis widget is more noticeable and useful than that small green button of ShareThis. Secondly the Addthis widget works on mouse-over which is more attractive. The ShareThis widget again needs to be closed by clicking the close button.
  That’s why I personally prefer Addthis.

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  Justin Thorp February 16th, 2009 at 21:52

  Hi, my name is Justin Thorp and I’m the community manager at AddThis.  I really appreciate your feedback about our service.  Your thoughts are helpful.  I’m curious though.  Can you tell me what kind of errors you were encountering when submitting to different social bookmarks?  E-mail me – justin@addthis.com

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  Tom April 5th, 2009 at 11:52

  Yeah I am using http://www.crowdsend.com on my site! Much better!

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  Brian Kenyon June 1st, 2009 at 22:20

  You mention that you use Sharethis however for this blog post I am seeing Addthis. Why did you switch back?

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  wwjimd June 7th, 2009 at 03:46

  You claim sharethis is better. But you still use addthis. strange.

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  Jeff Wong October 28th, 2009 at 01:02

  Hello, I’m the Creative Director at AddThis. Thanks for posting this comparison. I’d like to join this conversation and get some input, and perhaps share a couple things we know about the space. Ultimately, I’d like to collaborate with you to make our product better.

  So here are some thoughts in regards to your 4 bullet points:

  “1. Simple and more user friendly.”
  We have a full time user experience design team that’s dedicated to keeping our product simple, focused, and user friendly. If our product isn’t simple to use or user friendly, we have failed you and your users. However, I don’t think we have… in fact, I believe our product is more simple and user friendly than the other alternatives out there. Our team actively researches our product and we use the data to help drive the design, performance, and innovation. Just recently, we launched a smarter menu—it optimizes itself for each one of your users. Visit http://www.addthis.com/features to learn more. This ensures that the right service is presented to the right user. We’ve seen dramatic lifts in traffic for all our publishers since more people are sharing. This is a win win for everyone. Publishers get more traffic. People can share with one click. And we look at all the data to make the product better for you. This is a core feature that makes AddThis more simple and friendly to use. And this is just the beginning—we want to get more feedback on how we can make our site, product, and overall experience better for you and your users.

  “2. I love the ability to tell your myspace.com contact” and “3. Ability to tell all you facebook.com contact directly”
  Actually, ShareThis no longer supports importing your facebook and myspace contacts. I actually really liked that feature as well in their menu—I agree, it was a good idea. We, too, wanted to add a similar feature to AddThis, but there was a problem—we would have broken our terms of service with Facebook. Just because you can, doesn’t mean we’re allowed to. Facebook is our friend too, so we have to abide by their rules. We came up with a really good alternative solution for now—instead, AddThis always takes you to their destination so you can manage your contacts there. For example, if you share with Facebook or MySpace, we redirect you their site so that you can manage, share and use your contacts. This is a better solution because there’s no middle man.

  I, however, agree that there could be a easier way to integrate our contacts (other than email address books) into the sharing experience. We’re actually designing and testing some new features. Really-really cool features.

  “4. Listed only the best Social Bookmarking website”
  AddThis has over 170 services (and it’s growing, thanks to our open directory). No other sharing tool has this many services. These are services that have been recommended and submitted by the public. Submit your own (http://www.addthis.com/services/submit).

  So what does this all mean? Well, when you combine the largest growing service directory with a smart menu that optimizes itself for each person, your website is going to be distributed more. For example, if someone doesn’t use MySpace, they’re probably not going to use it… so why keep it at the top of the list? Instead, they may use viadeo (french version of linked in), or meanéme (spanish bookmarking), or baidu (chinese bookmarking). AddThis supports all these services and more, and ensures that we maximize your distribution and reach around the world. Learn more about our service directory at http://www.addthis.com/services

  Hopefully this helps. Again, let us know how we can help make AddThis better for you. You are one of the greatest sources of feedback we have. Please feel free to make suggestions on our forum (http://www.addthis.com/forum) or email our community manager, Justin. He responded to your post as well.

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