Can you make redirecting links count towards your share button numbers?

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  alexpalbright · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 1:52 am

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  Hi there,

  I am a wordpress newbie (apologies in advance for my obvious ignorance) and have a very specific question about how share/view stats work for links that redirect to wordpress blogs:

  Last week I posted a blog post at the following url: http://thelittledataset.com/2015/02/19/id-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-making-this-data-available/
  Later, a twitter account tweeted it using this url: nyti.ms/1D0Dojj
  The above url redirects to my blog post but the end of the url is a little different (see the “?smid=…” section):
  http://thelittledataset.com/2015/02/19/id-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-making-this-data-available/?smid=nytimesarts

  Retweets and favorites of that tweet have not counted towards my share buttons that are on the bottom of my blog post. Is that because redirection links don’t count for wordpress shares? Is there a way to get the retweets/favorite to count on my share buttons?
  Furthermore, are the views that came from this link visible in my WP stats or should I have another tool like google analytics if I want to see that?

  Any and all help is appreciated!
  Thanks so much!
  Alex

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