#1264 - Social media stats

By Chris Graham
Added 7th Jun 2013, 7:43 AM
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Identifier	#1264
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Social media stats
Status	Open
Tags	Type: External dependency (custom) Type: External social media integration (custom)
Handling member	Deleted
Addon	recommend
Description	Show counts of recent tweets and Facebook likes and shares, possibly other services - on main_screen_actions block.
Steps to reproduce
Additional information	Once done we can remove the manual SharedCount and Facebook Insights links from the Health Check system.
Related to	#2259 - New stats/KPI system
Funded?	No

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By Guest posted 3rd Dec 2013, 6:13 AM

http://www.sharedcount.com/
Edit: SharedCount has dropped support for many services, not so interesting now.

By Guest posted 1st Jan 2014, 10:35 AM

Nice details on the APIs available on various social networks:
http://www.codedevelopr.com/articles/get-social-network-share-counts/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/insights/

And a JavaScript that handles it:
https://github.com/ritz078/socialShare.js

By Guest posted 4th Mar 2016, 7:03 PM

This is what a popular Wordpress addon is doing:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-share-statistics/

By Guest posted 7th Nov 2020, 2:52 PM

Just a quick note that this doesn't depend on any other social media work, e.g. with the Hybridauth addon.

It works on the basis of shared links, not syndicated content. And by definition it only needs to work with the most popular networks, as we want to track where things are spreading.