FQL like, share, comment count accuracy - facebook

Question

Often it seems fql number for a given url like, share, comment, total counts seem to be off.
For example this url
http://www.france24.com/en/20140112-reporters-crimean-tatars-unending-exile-identity-ethnic-minority-muslims-central-asia-ukraine
FQL shows:
share_count: 18377
like_count: 16215
comment_count: 8840
total_count: 43432
The graph api shows very different numbers, and if you check facebook widget count on the url itself it has a totally different count.
Anyone knows what is going on and how to get accurate numbers.

Answer 1

When querying link_stat with url you supplied we see the following:
select comment_count, like_count, share_count, total_count
from link_stat where url = 'http://www.france24.com/en/20140112-reporters-crimean-tatars-unending-exile-identity-ethnic-minority-muslims-central-asia-ukraine/'
{
"data": [
{
"comment_count": 10,
"like_count": 55,
"share_count": 18,
"total_count": 83
}
]
}
But when querying link_stat with parent url of site france24.com we see exactly your numbers (weel slightly changed of course, but almost the same). So check you query - maybe you cut the url somehow in you request?
select comment_count, like_count, share_count, total_count
from link_stat where url = 'http://www.france24.com/'
{
"data": [
{
"comment_count": 8840,
"like_count": 16415,
"share_count": 18377,
"total_count": 43632
}
]
}

Answer 2

Perhaps my initial question was not clear, the issue was with 2 forms of the same url returning radically different results in fql, web facebook widget etc. the urls in question are
http://www.france24.com/en/20140112-reporters-crimean-tatars-unending-exile-identity-ethnic-minority-muslims-central-asia-ukraine
and
http://www.france24.com/en/20140112-reporters-crimean-tatars-unending-exile-identity-ethnic-minority-muslims-central-asia-ukraine/
The URLs are identical except the ending /

Answer 3

The facebook sees the url as a string. Is case sensitive and it matters how you pass it for url. So, for facebook, there are really two different urls :/ The same happens if someone writes Ukraine with "U".
http://www.france24.com/en/20140112-reporters-crimean-tatars-unending-exile-identity-ethnic-minority-muslims-central-asia-Ukraine