Does the "Share a link" button have issues with redirects?

[arthurcanal]

Hi,

I am using the “Share a link” button on http://www.cacuscellular.com/ to share the following URL http://www.uscellular.com/vote, which is a redirect to http://www.cacuscellular.com/. I have it displaying on the website fine, the only strange thing is the actual functionality. When clicking and sharing the URL the counter does not increment. It is sitting at 3 and has not moved (http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://www.uscellular.com/vote). Are there any issues with using a redirect as the URL for the “Share a link” button?

Here is the HTML I am using to display this button:

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Thanks.

[episod]

It’s best to make sure that your data-counturl is the final destination where the Tweet Button code will actually reside. It’s fine to have your data-url pointing to a URL that redirects as long as data-counturl represents the eventual destination.

[arthurcanal]

I have followed your advice and change the HTML to be like so:

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Unfortunately it is still reporting the tweet count incorrectly. Any more advice at this point would be appreciated.

[stuart_cullum]

Per Twitter:

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If they follow the advice I gave in the last email to you – to make the page they’re tweeting out (the /vote page) the actual destination page, they will have a much easier time.

They also may be too artificial in their testing when trying to determine whether tweaks they make are effective.

Their web page currently does not include a data-counturl:
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And if they do add one, and then try arbitrary tests they won’t necessarily see the count increase immediately. These counts are “eventually consistent” once they get started – but it’s not going to retroactively examine in time tweets that have been issued and add them to the counter.

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This was something that we tried already with no luck. We had data-counturl in for 2 days and it never worked. Anything else we can try? Many thanks.

[niall]