Ignoring certain query string with button?

3 posts, started 2 years ago by cbkihong
  1. Hello,

    I'm having an issue with the Tweetmeme button as we have a certain piece of dynamic data as query string param embedded in the URL, but that dynamic param is preventing tweets from being aggregated in tweets counting. Like this:

    http://hostname.tld/path?param=user_id

    where user_id is our user id purpose. So the question is whether we can allow ?param=user_id to passthru to Twitter when user follows the link while we have tweet counts ignoring that part? I agree that is sort of impossible but just checking if workarounds available or so.

    Posted 2 years ago by cbkihong
  2. Hi There,

    Set a canonical link that does not include this additional parameter detail and we will count against that rather than the user identity long URL.

    Many thanks
    Sarah

    Posted 2 years ago by Sarah
  3. Hi,

    As Sarah said, please set a canonical link on your page - TweetMeme will then ensure that the canonical is always used for counting links.

    However, we will also use this canonical for tweeting through the button, so this extra data will be stripped off. I'm afraid we have no plans to address this particular scenario at the moment, but we may well revisit it in the future.

    Posted 2 years ago by Nick Telford

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