Hi Maria -- I know that back in SCN days (and prior to my joining
the Community Experience Team) I had to do a manual tally of social share
buttons when compiling my internal reports. Any large scale aggregation of social
sharing buttons (vs. social share stats for one or a handful of blogs) would
happen on the backend, and likely not be readily accessible at this point in
time. Depending on your volume, sourcing those number manually from each blog
is actually a fairly quick exercise.
And
to Jerry's point, Twitter killed the view count on its social sharing button in
late 2015. But it's worth keeping in mind that not all social sharing happens
via the embedded share buttons. Even before Twitter stopped supporting share counts on tweet buttons, that number didn't capture the full picture of a post's social penetration/virality. Some folks may opt to copy and paste URLs
directly to social channels or their preferred publishing tools; personally, I
tend to use my phone's native social sharing functionality when I post content
to my personal networks.
Thanks
for the heads up about the Google+ zero issue. I tested it out myself on Sven's
blog you linked to above as well as a newer post-migration blog post, both of
which showed 0 G+ share counts despite my sharing. We'll look into this issue
and find a fix as quickly as possible.
--
Josh Hedrick
Manager, SAP Community Social Media
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