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Mixpanel documentation lists two Javascript API's: Integration API and People Analytics. Both have an identify() method to identify users:
mixpanel.idenfity(...)
mixpanel.people.identify(...)
How are they different?
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Mixpanel handles user identification through a property called distinct_id. Mixpanel sends a distinct_id with every event that you want to tie to a user.
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This is a late answer, I know, but I've been coming across the same issue as well.
From what I can tell:
1) mixpanel.people.identify creates a new user in mixpanels dashboard (under explore) everytime it is called, even if that particular user already exists, and just overwrites their activity
2) mixpanel.identify does more of a find, and works as expected for their activity, but doesn't create a new user if it's never seen that distinct id before.
Needless to say, these two calls should do the same thing, with some kind of find_or_create on the backend, but it seems to be either a find or create, depending on which you are using.
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