Since a few days I have noticed that sharing a link also counts as a like in the external facebook widgets. As we have certain sites that count the number of likes for certain pages this doesn't seem to be accurate anymore. Anyone else who can confirm this "issue"?
Assuming you're talking about the Like plugin and not the Like count of a Facebook page, please see the documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Specifically the piece labelled What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number on an off-Facebook like button is made up of several different types of interactions, not just Like edges
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Hope you can help with the below, which I've spent most of this weekend trying to resolve but to no avail.
I use a social share and vote plugin on my website, which works perfectly for G+ Twitter Pinterest etc etc. However my facebook like button simply does not want to work.
Example, yesterday I posted this on my websites facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/116091541779464/photos/a.496114153777199.1073741829.116091541779464/696621417059804/?type=1
As you can see, this links to this page of my website which has its like, share, +1 counts etc at the bottom: http://www.superluigibros.com/evolution-of-mario
As you can see from the Facebook post it has 85 likes. Yet the website shows only 1 like?
The social plugin that I use asks for an App ID. I have created, and activated an App in Facebook and put the App ID in the relevant field of the plugin.
However I am not sure that the App is actually set up properly on the Facebook side, or maybe it lacks the permission to actually count the likes?
The only other point of note is that I am using another Facebook widget (the one that shows who likes our page) in a seperate module. Could this be conflicting in some way?
If anyone could help would be greatly appreciated. I really dont understand whats up with it
Best regards
Luke
This is the case because those are two completely different things:
On http://www.superluigibros.com/evolution-of-mario the number of likes is the number of times the URL was liked
With https://www.facebook.com/116091541779464/photos/a.496114153777199.1073741829.116091541779464/696621417059804/?type=1 you just posted an image also present on your page to your Facebook pages. The like count show the likes only for this image
So, what you need to do is to add the OpenGraph tags properly to your website, as described at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-objects#selfhosted-creating Then, you shouldn't share just an image on your Facebook page's feed, but the URL instead. FB will then pull the content for the image etc. from your website upon sharing.
The like counter in your facebook post is handled separately from the likes of your website page. Each "like" that your post receive doesn't count towards the site's like counter.
EDIT: I've just tested your site's like counter, and it's counting correctly as I have just liked it myself.
I have an idea to create a "top posts" feature to my website, which creates the "top" list depending on how many likes and shares that a post have on facebook.
Users may see how many likes an post has received so far since they only have to ask for a single, defined url. However, the website itself has to be able to query all the links that are tied to itself (which have a predefined url template like website.com/[post-id]) to create the "top" list. Is it possible to do something similar (or achieve the same result in a different way)?
Any ideas on a real workflow about something like this will be appreciated!
this seems like a little but interesting project. I don't know if there is a feature that could get that directly in the way you want, but i did something similar.
First you have the Graph API, with that you can get the Posts of a user using feed, with that every post is telling you how many likes does it have which you can get with POST_ID/likes.
Then you'll have to check for changes in the post periodically comparing its created_time and updated_time.
This could seem very hard, because you have a lot of posts and you have to check them all for updates, but you can use batch_requests so you can check them all at once.
I have made a bookmarklet which shows top posts in the Facebook News Feed as well as Google+, Twitter and Instagram Profiles.
Just add a new bookmark in your bookmarks bar and replace its URL with the following code and save it, then go to the social network website and run it:
javascript:(function(){var s=document.createElement('script');s.src='https://niutech.github.io/topnewsfeed/topnewsfeed.min.js';document.body.appendChild(s);})()
The source code is available on GitHub.
I have a slightly confusing setup on my site right now with:
A like button with the data-ref attribute set to the root domain of my site
A like box with date-ref set to a Facebook page I created for my site.
These obviously leads to different things, as the like button has 2.7k likes while the like box/Facebook page has around 600. This last number is also the number of likes I see on my regular Facebook page.
Now I also noticed that I have a second Facebook page saying it is the administration page for my webpage. The page has never been used to post anything, and it doesn't seem to be visible to anyone but me. This page has 700 likes.
I've been reading documentation on this stuff, but I'm not feeling confident about merging the pages or anything just yet, so I have a couple of questions I'm hoping someone with more Facebook experience than me can answer:
Where does this 700 number come from? It's not displayed on either my like button or my like box.
Is there any way for me to combine these three different counts into one?
The 700 is the count of people that liked the URL after you created the admin page which represents that URL - this is irrelevant now as that functionality is deprecated. ( see the link CBroe provided: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/migration
It is not possible to migrate fans from one object or page to another, except as was allowed during the migration period outlined in that document, if you didn't migrate during that period you cannot move the fans of the site/domain to be fans of the Facebook page instead
there is a huge discrepancy between the number of likes our page has received and the number of likes displayed when using the like button, and giving it the facebook page's URL (like button is much higher). Does anyone know why this happens?
As described in the doc :
What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number shown is the sum of:
The number of likes of this URL
The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
The number of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment.
I am a Facebook Partner Engineer working on platform. To bring your Facebook page Likes to your web page you should use the Like Box rather than the like button. This will allow you to gain Facebook page likes from your website while also giving you the option to show your page's stream stories right in your web site.
You can find out more about the like box here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I hope this helps!
Jonathan
My understanding is the like button aggregates likes, comments and other interactions.
Basically the counter next to the button isn't the like count but an activity or interaction count.
You can get the actual like count through the graph api if you need it.
I know this is borderline StackOverflow question, but since a lot of user will have installed Facebook Like buttons, I thought it was a good place to ask.
I want to add a little Facebook Like button on my site, with the little counter showing how many people like this. I'm simply wondering if I can choose to have the counter site-wide (count all the Likes across all pages) or have the counter individual for each page.
Thanks.
As a side question: what do you think is better.?
Like buttons with more impressive number but all linking to the same (home) page...
Like buttons with smaller count, but (facebook stream) linking to different pages...
every page that has a FB widget can be linked to an FB page... therefore the possibilities are endless... if you want every page to additively connect to just one FB page, then just make sure that each embedded widget points to the same FB page...