Difference between tiny url and real url

[fdavid]

Hi,

I am using a shortener to share url of my website (like bit.ly). When displaying the counter, it always show 0 even if there is more than 0 share (I tried for FB and TW). It is because TW and FB register the real url for counting and not the tiny url.

Example for twitter : http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liste-noire.org%2Fcompagnies-aeriennes%2FU2%2Feasyjet%2Favis%2F4250%2Fvol-de-nice-a-lille-par-bruno-mic%2F&callback=jQuery17208600041456774824_1350211961843

return 1 for sharing

While the tiny url of this url return 0 http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://wtf.tl/a/1/1/a/16y/

Edit : It seems like G+ is using the shorten one for counting...

Could you make the difference between those two ?

Thanks for your time!

[thomask]

Did you find a solution? I have the same problem..

[thomask]

ping @fdavid

[decadeofdefeat]

I modified the sharrre js file to make short URLs work for Twitter.

In the HTML code add a data-shorturl value and add the bitly link

 data-url="http://www.yourdomain.com/full-long-link/"  data-shorturl="http://bit.ly/12345"

Add the shorturl to the defaults array and set it to the same as the url

 shorturl: document.location.href,

In Plugin.prototype.init, check it shorturl exists:

 Plugin.prototype.init = function () {
 ...
 if(typeof $(this.element).data('shorturl') !== 'undefined'){
  this.options.shorturl = $(this.element).data('shorturl');
}

In popup array, add the shorturl to the Twitter URL string if it exists

 twitter: function(opt){
  window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="+encodeURIComponent(opt.text)+"&url="+encodeURIComponent((opt.shorturl !== '' ? opt.shorturl : opt.url))+(opt.buttons.twitter.via !== '' ? '&via='+opt.buttons.twitter.via : ''), "", "toolbar=0, status=0, width=650, height=360");
},