The number of Twitter links from the Twitter REST API

Question

Is there a way to get the link count from twitter to implement our own version of the twitter button? From the official Twitter API.

PS: The search API only works for a limited amount of time.

Answer 1

try it

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json ? url = http: //someLink.com&callback=twttr.receiveCount