andywozhere
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Anyone else having problems with the Twitter counter not counting?
Twitter Counter Stuck at Zero
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andywozhere
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@link8r is it usually a temporary glitch with Twitter or is it site specific (e.g. conflict with .ht access)? At the moment I'm thinking it is probably Twitter.
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I think it is something to do with their URL shortener.
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My (totally unqualified) theory was that the counter is showing the count of the long URL, but actually counting the short URL. If I do a search for the shortened URL on Twitter I find results relating to the tweet that has been shared. If I search for the long URL I come up with nothing. If the counter is doing something similar to the search, this would mean a count of zero. I don't think data-counturl is working as it should.
Here's the code I used
Here's the code I used
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<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="somone" data-related="someone" data-url="http://www.somesite.com" data-counturl="http://www.somesite.com">Tweet</a>andywozhere
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Never got it to work. Oh well.
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