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How can I track with Mixpanel the event of a user following my Twitter account by clicking the Twitter Follow button?

Please bear with me, I'm not a developer.

I'd like to track the event of a site visitor clicking on my Twitter Follow Button with Mixpanel. Hence I run the following Mixpanel event/name:

<script> function clickTwitterFollowB() {
    mixpanel.track("Twitter button");       
        }</script>

I use onclick to load the Mixpanel function when the Twitter button is clicked:

onclick="clickTwitterFollowB()"

And this is the Twitter Button code where I insert the above:

<a href="https://twitter.com/myAccount" onclick="clickTwitterFollowB()" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large">Follow @myAccount</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

When I do the above, the event is not tracked, but it does track it does work on links "a""/a" and "button""/button".

Any ideas/suggestions on what might be wrong with this event tracking code?

Solution

  • Clinking the link loads another page, at which point the JS on your page is no longer relevant.

    You have a couple options: How do I log a MixPanel event when a user clicks a link?