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.