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

This way you can get it with jquery. The div id="twitterCount" will be populated automatic when the page is loaded.

     function getTwitterCount(url){
         var tweets;
         $.getJSON('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' + url + '&callback=?',             function(data){
         tweets = data.count;
         $('#twitterCount').html(tweets);
     });
     }
     var urlBase='http://http://stackoverflow.com';
     getTwitterCount(urlBase); 

Cheers!