LinkedIn inShare Plugin Sharing Counter returning Zeros

Question

I have a wordpress blog (http://bloculus.com/) where I use Super Socializer plugin to share my posts. Recently, I discovered that I lost all my LinkedIn share counts (in every post, it went back to 0).

I got in touch with the plugin author and we saw that the issue wasn't in his side. When using the linkedin api, I see that I don't have any share on any post.

Here is an example:

http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://bloculus.com/process-communication-les-fondamentaux/&format=json

Response is:

{
"count": 0,
"fCnt": "0",
"fCntPlusOne": "1",
"url": "http://bloculus.com/process-communication-les-fondamentaux/"
}

Whereas I had a few hundreds of shares last week.

So my questions are:

• Given that I didn't change any of my posts URL, nor website settings (no change in http or https protocol), how is it possible to "loose" sharing count ?

• Is it a way to get all my counts back ?

Thank you for your help!

Purpose

Apologies! We were running a test to determine the effectiveness of the share count number on the inShare button. The share count should be back for all users. – Tyra

@StephenLynch The problem appears to be back today. Could you take a look? – Wharf

Answer 1

https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/posts/2018/deprecating-the-inshare-counter

The API was end-of-lifed, so results will return what you are seeing. I don't know of an existing workaround.

Fem

Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Brigid

Makes sense. The blog post is largely content-free. It's just evidence of what I stated. But point taken. Thanks – Fem