Calculate How Many Times URL have been Shared on Facebook

How to Calculate Particular URL Sharing on Facebook

This is bit interesting to see how many times a URL have been shared on the most popular social networking website facebook.com. Facebook has the application http://graph.facebook.com/ is the tool which allows you to calculate How mayn Times the given URL have been shared and How many comments it has received so far

For example, if you want to see How many times this http://www.youtube.com/ URL have been shared

1. Just open your web browser, it may be anyone such as mozilla firefox, google chrome or internet explorer

2. Copy and Paste this URL http://graph.facebook.com/ into the browser's address bar

3. Add the URL after http://graph.facebook.com/ for which the number of sharing and comments have to be calculated
For example, it will look like http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.youtube.com/

4. Once you got the URL in browser address bar, just hit the Enter button will show you the above said details
The output of above example is given below, this count have been taken on 11-May-2011

{
"id": "http://www.youtube.com/",
"shares": 3590655,
"comments": 2
}

5. Replace the URL http://www.youtube.com/ with the desired URL for which you want to have the count and hit Enter will give you the facebook count stats