Security
SpotFan reads your LinkedIn data through the channel LinkedIn itself built for it. You grant the permission in your account and withdraw it at any time.
You stay in control.
Whoever wins customers on LinkedIn needs the signals of their contacts as a list. LinkedIn does not provide one. So many tools get the data in ways LinkedIn prohibits.
Under every post you see who reacted. That never becomes a list you can work with.
Merging, tracking, following up: LinkedIn does not offer that.
Many tools want your password for this or read along in your browser. That this can cost you your account is written in their terms. You accepted them with a tick.
We read the terms of use of 28 LinkedIn tools. 8 state word for word that they are not liable if LinkedIn bans your account. Check the terms of your own tool.
LinkedIn prohibits this and says so itself: the account gets restricted or shut down. In the worst case, account, contacts and every ongoing conversation are gone in one day.
Real cases and the rules word for wordWhat remains is manual work: spotting the right moment, following up, forgetting nothing.
Every day, for every person, over weeks. An enormous effort.
Nobody keeps that in their head.
The data channel
LinkedIn has to hand over your own data to you, to an application of your choice. An EU law, the Digital Markets Act, requires it. Hardly anyone knows this channel.
SpotFan reads your data through LinkedIn’s official API, the Member Data Portability API.
I did not know it myself.
K. Nadeem Arif, founder
Measured, not estimated
1,680
Signals from 1,122 people in 15 days, through this channel. Measured on a single SpotFan account.
Who reacts, comments, writes or invites, with name, profile and headline.
The wording of every comment, the type of every reaction.
Your own messages, contacts, posts and comments.
You grant the permission
In your LinkedIn account. It is visible there in your settings.
LinkedIn hands over your data
Only your own. Strangers with no contact to you are not included.
SpotFan reads, on your computer
About once an hour. It sends nothing, posts nothing, changes nothing.