share on twitter button like that of linkedin

Question

I want to embed LinkedIn share and twitter share on my Jekyll pages.

I have made LinkedIn share, which was pretty simple. Now, I want my Twitter share button to be like that of LinkedIn.

This is my current sharing buttons.

I want that Twitter should also show the number of shares like LinkedIn is showing.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Twitter doesn't support a counter anymore.

The count was built in a time where the only button on the web was from Twitter. Today, it's most commonly placed among a number of other share buttons, few of which have counts.

Additionally, the “count API” has never existed as part of our public, supported and documented API endpoints; it was only intended for use by our own web widgets. We've often cautioned in our developer forums that use of such undocumented endpoints shouldn't be relied upon, as we cannot commit to supporting them

Source: Twitter Developer Blog: Hard decisions for a sustainable platform, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 .