Find out how many social shares a URL has?

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).

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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.

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