Counts on LinkedIn buttons not working (Facebook questionable)

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  trnovice · Member · Feb 25, 2018 at 4:02 pm

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  Adding a new topic as the thread discussing this – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linkedin-and-reddit-share-upvote-counts-have-disappeared?replies=22#post-3076488 – was unaccountably closed before resolution.

  An issue with / change to the LinkedIn API had been identified, what is the current situation?

  This has now been a big for some time.

  Peter

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  gemmacevans · Member · Feb 25, 2018 at 5:24 pm

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  Hi Peter,

  As I mentioned in the other thread, this is something we are continuing to work on at the moment. I’m waiting for news from our developers so I don’t have an update for you just yet. I’ll let you know when I do though.

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  trnovice · Member · Feb 25, 2018 at 6:10 pm

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  Great – given this, can you please leave this thread open (or open the original and close this one)?

  Thanks

  Peter

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  kokkieh · Staff · Feb 26, 2018 at 6:10 am

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  HI Peter,

  It looks like LinkedIn has removed the share count from their API, so they no longer provide that information for us to show in the button. See:

  https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/posts/2018/deprecating-the-inshare-counter

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  trnovice · Member · Feb 27, 2018 at 11:29 pm

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  Wow! Another supposedly social media company just not getting it *sigh*

  I guess I’ll try approaching them directly – not that it will do any good.

  Thanks

  Peter