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terrid25
terrid25

Reputation: 1946

Twitter - tweet button API

I'm looking into using the Twitter tweet button API, found: here

I have the following code:

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"
data-url="http://myurl.com/howtouse"
data-counturl="http://myurl.com/howtouse"
data-text="How to use this site"
data-count="vertical"
>Tweet</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

My problem comes with the count. When I hit the 'tweet' button, the popup appears. I post to twitter all fine. The problem then comes with when I then click on the count box, which is 0.

The URL of this is: http://twitter.com/#search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmyurl.com%2Fhowtouse%2F

Which when clicked returns no results even though I can see the tweet in my timeline.

Does anyone have any ideas why the search wouldn't find the link I shared/tweeted and why the count is 0?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2504

Answers (1)

abraham
abraham

Reputation: 47833

There are a number of reasons that Tweets don't show up in search that range from quality filtering to time: http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search

The tweet count being 0 can be an effect of caching. Generally tweet button counts take a few hours to update for performance reasons and are often inaccurate by a % as well.

Upvotes: 2

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