Is there a way to get the twitter share count for a specific URL?

Question

I looked through the API documentation but couldn\'t find it. It would be nice to grab that number to see how popular a url is. Engadget uses the twitter share button on a

Answer 1

Yes,

https://share.yandex.ru/gpp.xml?url=http://www.web-technology-experts-notes.in

Replace "http://www.web-technology-experts-notes.in" with "your full web page URL".

Check the Sharing count of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest

http://www.web-technology-experts-notes.in/2015/04/share-count-and-share-url-of-facebook-twitter-linkedin-and-pininterest.html

Update: As of 21st November 2015, Twitter has removed the "Tweet count endpoint" API.

Read More: https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/667836799897591808