Added new JSON endpoint for twitter shares

[SimonSomlai]

Hey Tim,

I've found a new API endpoint for twitter shares, which is provided by http://newsharecounts.com/. They've basically kept a huge database of twitter shares using the old api (which stopped working a while ago) and regularly crawls twitter for new mentions.

Try it: http://public.newsharecounts.com/count.json?url=http://newsharecounts.com/

[brugeman]

Hi guys, great to hear you found newsharecounts useful (I'm the author), just wanted to mention that it does not crawl all the twitter regularly - it only scans for specific websites that people added to tracking using their twitter credentials. So, even though our API is public, it will only show proper results for websites that our users set up for tracking.

[Timrael]

@SimonSomlai does it satisfy your needs? In my case, I need to check shares of totally new web pages and this service won't help me.

[SimonSomlai]

@Timrael Partially. it's not 100% accurate but I guess it's probably the closest we'll be getting unless twitter opens up their api again. I've used it in an app that checks the most popular articles from websites (https://contentcrawler.herokuapp.com/), so those are (mostly) a bit older and the "biggest" websites mostly have tracking enabled too.