While showing off number of retweets you get on a post is very common, showing number of clicks -that is relatively higher- can be a very interesting measure of how popular your post is. Since, sharing your short URL is not limited to Twitter but also it can be shared anywhere like Facebook, email and others..

bit.ly -the most common URL shortener- provides a simple RESTfull API to lookup short URL’s and their clicks count.. bit.ly has recently released version 3 which added simpler, more efficient methods to query multiple URL’s in one request that we are going to apply in this tutorial.

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So you just got into Google Buzz few days ago and would like to embed your buzz stream into a website yourself. Here are a few jQuery lines to help you get started.

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Another Topsy-enabled jQuery plugin to list the most popular posts on your website, from your Twitter timeline or for some keyword within a selected period of time.

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I took the Topsy retweet button and jQuery-fied it, then added the “Who” part to it using the awesome Topsy API. to create this fancy share count button for your stories on twitter.

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A Twitter trackbacks widget to integrate tweets that mention your post. Each tweet comes with reply & retweet links to get more readers engaged in the conversation. Plugin is based on Topsy API, which has already released a WordPress plugin to turn your post tweets into comments. But, If your blog is not WordPress and looking for similar functionality using JavaScript only; then this widget is for you..

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