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Counting how many times a web link has been shared on Twitter

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Here is a function that read the number of times a url is shared on twitter.

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  1. function readTwitterShares($url) {
  2.  $s = file_get_contents("http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json".
  3.    "?callback=?&url=".urlencode($url));
  4.    preg_match("#(\"count\"):([0-9]*)#",$s,$ar);
  5.    return isset($ar[2]) ? $ar[2] : 0;
  6. }
  7.  
  8. echo readTwitterShares("http://www.dailybest.it");

URL: http://www.barattalo.it/2012/10/19/how-many-times-a-web-link-has-been-shared-on-twitter/

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