Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has?
by hanley on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:37PM
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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?
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Re:Find out how many social shares a URL has?
by XaspR8d on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:44PM
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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...)