Get number of twitter shares by url

Question

I have a question about twitter counting. Everything is so blury about this. Simply: I have website with dynamic pages, button for tweet, people go to page, press tweet, it shows on they twitter, count on my page increase. but I need also on my backend to call to twitter and ask them how many shares i have already and count with that.

It is concept for voting. People by sharing to facebook and twitter are voting for the website, so i need to take those votes and count them together. Please dont recommend me scripts like "sharecount" i tried and it has a lot of issues, and its not reliable. I can get easily likes from facebook but i dont seems to get how to get the number of shares from twitter.

Also if anyone can help me, is there a way to get shares from unique users ? I noticed that if i tweet the site 50 times, the counter is 50. I would like it to count 50 tweets from 1 user as 1.

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

See the private API method http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=