How to count retweets in full text on your WordPress posts

The first thing to do is to open your functions.php file and insert the following function:

function tweetCount($url) {
    $content = file_get_contents("http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=".$url);
    $element = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
    $retweets = $element->story->url_count;
    if($retweets){
        return $retweets;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

Once done, open your single.php file and paste the following:

$rt = tweetCount(get_permalink());
echo "Retweeted ".$rt." times.";

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