Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn share link count

Question

Is there any way to get the number of users to share a link on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn?

Example: How many times some link was shared to Facebook, Twitter, and

Answer 1

Update

Unfortunately, Twitter share count is impossible with API 1.1

Ref: intgr/(number) is number of shares and all responses are in JSON

Facebook

http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://{URL}

Returns:

{
   "id": "http://{URL}",
   "shares": intgr/(number)
}

Twitter

http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://{URL}

Returns:

{  
   "count": intgr/(number)
   "url":"http:\/\/{URL}\/"
}

v1.1 Update

Version 1.1 of Twitter API which does not support count.json. Thus, it will not be possible to retireve tweets counts. However, I figured out that Tweet Buttons use a custom endpoint to get these numbers.

Here's the new endpoint

https://cdn.syndication.twitter.com/widgets/tweetbutton/count.json?url={URL}

^{I am not sure whether Twitter will take this endpoint down, and replace it when they officially shutdown v 1.0, but it works.}

LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://{URL&format=json

Returns:

{
   "count": intgr/(number),
   "fCnt": "intgr/(number)",
   "fCntPlusOne":"intgr/(number) + 1", // increased by one
   "url":"http:\/\/{URL}"
}

Getting shares count with jQuery

Ref: for Twitter and linkdIn I had to add callback to get a response

HTML:

JS:

$('#getJSON').click( function () {

    $('#data-tab').fadeOut();
    $URL = $('#urlInput').val();

    // Facebook Shares Count
    $.getJSON( 'http://graph.facebook.com/?id=' + $URL, function( fbdata ) {
        $('#facebook-count').text( 'The URL has ' + ReplaceNumberWithCommas(fbdata.shares) + ' shares count on Facebook')
    });

    // Twitter Shares Count
    $.getJSON( 'http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' + $URL + '&callback=?', function( twitdata ) {
        $('#twitter-count').text( 'The URL has ' + ReplaceNumberWithCommas(twitdata.count) + ' shares count on Twitter')
    });

    // LinkIn Shares Count
    $.getJSON( 'http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=' + $URL + '&callback=?', function( linkdindata ) {
        $('#linkdin-count').text( 'The URL has ' + ReplaceNumberWithCommas(linkdindata.count) + ' shares count on linkdIn')
    });

    $('#data-tab').fadeIn();

});

Complete Fiddle

UPDATE:

Another Fiddle (returns the total shares across the 3 above)