I'm pretty sure they're only indexing a subset of redirect links for the count at this point. So, the 4 or 5 being counted are probably ones that were shared with t.co or bit.ly.
-jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://snowballfactory.com Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me On Aug 18, 12:12 pm, artesea <ryancul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happens in all browsers even days after the number of tweets is up to > 4 or 5 (ok not a busy site but still zero make it look crap) > Like I said before clicking on the number brings me to a page showing > all the tweets so they are there, just for some reason twitter when > doing the count lookup isn't finding them (url to short??? doesn't > like .org.uk???) > My shortlinks are the same for each post as I'm just using the > wordpress post id with a 301 redirect. > Not seeing any reply from Twitter other than "it's probably a cache > issue", which it clearly isn't. > > Ryan > > On Aug 16, 1:13 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: > > > > > I have one theory and that is that the Twitter button caches the > > numbers. Try opening a different browser - I've heard people that said > > that this works. > > > You should also make sure that you don't generate a new shortlink for > > every tweet. > > > Tom