Has Facebook Followed Suit of Twitter and Disabled Showing Social Shares Count?

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August 19, 2016, 2:08 pm

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Has Facebook Followed Suit of Twitter and Disabled Showing Social Shares Count?

So I've been checking every social signal checker I know of and can find, and every single one of them say the same thing. None of them are showing the share count of Facebook shares, likes, comments etc.

Try using any social signal checker online to check how many social signals, shares, likes you have and nothing will show for Facebook?

http://socialsignalchecker.com/
http://www.socialsignals.de/
http://social-llama.com/social-signal-checker/
https://www.sharedcount.com/
http://www.socialsignals.de

Twitter disabled showing their share count of tweets and things a while back. Have Facebook now followed suit and are doing the same thing?

The only thing that's still showing is Google+ 1's.

I've searched around and all I can find about it is this post on the Inc site.

Not having the count made many third party button suites lopsided, and made Twitter stand out in a negative way. What they didn't know at the time was that they were starting a trend. This trend continues today with the loss of access to the share_count data for Facebook. Facebook has not yet made an announcement about the loss of this data. Or have they?

Is this the end of Facebook share count?

Rendering all those social signal checker sites, obsolete?

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TommyCarey

Oh damn, I didn't hear about this until just now

I guess I'm going to have to do a bit of researching now to see if this is just a temporary thing due to new coding and updates or if they are pushing this as a forever type of thing.

I hope it's not a forever type of thing because that would mean a lot of people will lose their businesses, or a website at least, and not have that revenue stream helping them out.

I actually just put up a new website and I was having a problem with the facebook social shares showing up and maybe this is why. It's either that or I'm just bad at putting in the code to show it lol

What would be the reasoning to take this away? Maybe facebook is tired of the inflation of likes, shares and fake comments in order to show a page, picture, profile are more popular than they should be? If that's the case, I think it's a smart move because now people won't focus on a number and it will reduce the fake statistics that show up on a profile. I know I've bought plenty of likes, shares, and comments that were fake for my websites facebook pages just to show they are more popular than they really are at the beginning. Becaus you know, who wants to start from scratch? lol

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Lynne

Oh my gosh Mike, yes imagine how all those social count websites must be feeling right now! I would hate to be an owner of one of those at this moment.

That really sucks because I love checking my social signals on social count websites.

Surely this will also be a pain in the ass now for buyers and sellers here of social shares? How will this be checked?

I can see the sense in Facebook making this move though, it will reduce the need for paid services and fake stats wouldn't it?

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Cristian

I think is a great move if you ask me. All this hysteria with social media signals really needs to die once and for all.
But I fear everyone will just find a way around this and nothing will change. What about social exchange websites, there surely will be the most affected out of this right?

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Has Facebook Followed Suit of Twitter and Disabled Showing Social Shares Count?

Has Facebook Followed Suit of Twitter and Disabled Showing Social Shares Count?

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