: AddThis Counts vs Facebook Counts Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the
Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the number in the box next to 'f like' is).
From a code point-of-view this is simpler and gives also counts and sharing buttons for other services. However, the counts were mostly reset to 0 or at least to a much lower number than before.
Why the discrepancy? What could the two things be counting differently?
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The page www.addthis.com/social-plugins/facebook-like-button states a different namespace to that mentioned above. It should be:
<html xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
I've just tried it and it works fine, my counter is back.
It is a bug. I discovered that some of the AddThis customization options cause the FB totals not to be added correctly. I have stopped using the offending elements.
Add this to the HTML tag at the top of each of your files:
<html xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
This comes from this page: www.addthis.com/features/facebook-like-button
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