- Target:
- Jack Dorsey, CEO, Twitter
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- thesocialmediamonthly.com
Twitter has turned off the functionality to return and display the number of tweets that any unique web page has received.
This change is documented on Twitter's website:
https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform
Numerous discussions concerning this change have taken place on Twitter's developer forums with no resolution, including:
https://twittercommunity.com/t/clarification-about-share-counts-for-the-new-tweet-button/52868
Further background information about this issue can be found here:
We, the undersigned, respectfully call upon the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, to turn back on the Tweet share API functionally:
https://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=
And to commit to maintaining this functionality going forward.
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The #SaveOurShareCounts petition to Jack Dorsey, CEO, Twitter was written by Robert Fine and is in the category Science & Technology at GoPetition.