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Solutions to Twitter Taking Away Your Social Share Counts on Nov 20

November 15, 2015 By Linda Sherman Leave a Comment

Twitter has decided they don’t want incur the cost to continue to provide the API necessary for Social Share plug-in developers to include a “count” of how many times your blog was posted on Twitter. The official pull date was November 20th.

This article starts with the sad story of how and when they made this unfortunate decision.

They explained their decision with a blog post called: Hard Decisions for a Sustainable Platform

“The mechanism by which we count Tweet shares today relies on using Cassandra. As part of our ongoing effort to consolidate and simplify the platform for supportability, we’re completing our migration away from Cassandra, in favor of Manhattan, our real-time, multi-tenant distributed database for Twitter scale. The Tweet count feature is one of the last features running on Cassandra. Like all engineering organizations, we have to make tradeoffs. The choices are to deprecate the feature, or rebuild it on a more modern tech stack. Rebuilding has its own costs, and would delay our work on other, more impactful offerings for our developer community. After talking to several of the top customers affected, we chose to not continue the feature.”

Simple Share Buttons Plus a WordPress social sharing plug-in that I recommend.

The tweet count deprecation should hit ALL social share plugins including Simple Share Buttons, Social WarFare, SumoMe, Monarch and Easy Social Share.

Social Warfare recently published their second post on the deprecation topic called: What Social Warfare is Doing About Your Twitter Share Count.

This was their first post: Is Twitter Seriously Removing Share Counts. Why Would They Do This?

David Neal has already sent out an update to his Simple Share Buttons plug-in to accommodate this.
I delayed doing the update to allow myself my Twitter counts until right before they are gone.

social share button on BoomerTechTalk article by LindaSherman

Simple Share Buttons Plus on BoomerTechTalk.com

Twitter recently apologized to developers and is trying to hit the reset button as reported in TechCrunch.

This deprecation hardly builds trust.

Furor from the Twitter community about the deprecation running from September 23rd to November 1st.

Solutions Twitter Social Share Count. Here are Your Options:

Check out TwitCount!
Their Twitter account is: @twitcountapp.

I found Ann Smarty’s valuable post thanks to GooglePlus.

Hers is the newest and most valuable summary of solution options I have found to date:
Internet Marketing Ninja’s Ann Smarty December 14

Social Media Today November 19: What Are Your Options?
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-business/what-happens-when-twitter-switches-share-counts-and-what-are-your-options

Search Engine Watch November 23rd by Charles Lake

Chicago D on November 25th.

Open Share Count: opensharecount.com – I have not vetted this. Don’t use it without checking it out first.

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Filed Under: Social Marketing Tagged With: Social Share Buttons, socialmedia, WordPress

About Linda Sherman

Boomer Tech Talk Managing Editor, Linda Sherman is passionate about senior health care and healthy longevity. Start-ups and board service in this field are of interest. Linda has a distinguished background of international subsidiary CEO/CMO experience. These include CEO Club Med Japan, Barilla Japan and CMO Wal-Mart Japan. After setting up Coors Japan, Linda devised and implemented an innovative guerrilla-marketing plan for ZIMA in Japan that produced a lasting, profitable success. Linda Sherman has been featured and quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, Christian Monitor and other leading publications. Connect with Linda on Twitter and Instagram @LindaSherman.

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