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Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by jeffgreco on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:55PM (#6512121)
http://www.sharedcount.com/ has a couple less services, but much snappier results.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by shahruz on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:31PM (#6512234)
these look suspiciously similar
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by bradsknutson on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:47PM (#6512512)
That's not a coincidence. I took inspiration from that design so that it's many users would instantly know how to use it.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by stevenkovar on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:09PM (#6512377)
We created a script of our own that did this for the share buttons on http://viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide and the main issue we had was that, depending on the service, you may have to specify whether it's www. or whether there is or is not a / at the end of the URL.

Services like Sharetally are neat because they do the crawling for you, but the numbers still may not be entire accurate; especially if you consider URL shorteners and how various services crawl and report those. Even more confusing is why some services (in particular, g+) seem to over-report the number of shares, only to self-correct later on (by as many as 10-11).

Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by adventured on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:46AM (#6513268)
Have spent several years running services that do a large volume of social share tracking, and the biggest problem I've run into is for eg: Twitter that doesn't have an official API method for the share counts and has a low ceiling on the rate limiting. The url consistency is definitely another big monster in the room.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by hanley on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:37PM (#6512061)
If I plug in a YouTube link will it also tally all of the YouTube link variations for that video? For example, if I put in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g, will it also include the shortened http://youtu.be/wE3fmFTtP9g in the tally?
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by XaspR8d on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:44PM (#6512275)
Makes me think how adding link shorteners really compounds the problem. Do these services check if there is a bit.ly version of the URL on all of the social sites? What about multiply-shortened URLs? (presumably that would be a waste, but in the "ideal" solution we could somehow find them all...)
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by siculars on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:50PM (#6512521)
Add bit.ly! Good stuff.

I've been doing this stuff for a bit on my personal sites. Interested in how different networks contribute to link popularity.

http://hnfluence.com

http://influentialtimes.com

Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by naiyt on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:52PM (#6512112)
Very cool! The Reddit results don't seem accurate after throwing in one of my sites that have been posted on Reddit a few times. The rest was interesting and enlightening. Thanks!
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by doctoboggan on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:04PM (#6512350)
I just learned some of my blog posts were very popular on "pocket". Maybe I should get an account there.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by StavrosK on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @04:17AM (#6513597)
It won't do you much good, unless you want to keep a list of things to read later. It's not "social".
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by MarcScott on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:51AM (#6513117)
I get a total activity of "NaN", for my blog. Does that mean it's too popular to count?
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by bradsknutson on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:53AM (#6513124)
No it means I busted something :) What's the link?
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by bradsknutson on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:04AM (#6513159)
Actually yea, it's too popular. I figured out what the issue was, and will have it fixed shortly. Good catch! Didn't mean for this to turn into a QA session...but hey, why not.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by MarcScott on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:07AM (#6513167)
Nice site. Great for the egotist in me. Didn't expect 'customer service' :)
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by bradsknutson on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:13AM (#6513182)
Thanks, and no problem for the "customer service." As with anything, it's difficult to find problems until it gets out there in the wild. Lots of weird stuff crops up that you hadn't accounted for.
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by MarcScott on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:56AM (#6513133)
Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has? by grinnick on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:10PM (#6512162)
I didn't build this by the way. I just came across it.