LinkedIn sharing counts lost

Question

I have a wordpress blog (http://bloculus.com/) where I use Super Socializer plugin to share my posts. Recently, I discovered that I lost all my LinkedIn share counts (in every post, it went back to 0).

I got in touch with the plugin author and we saw that the issue wasn't in his side. When using the linkedin api, I see that I don't have any share on any post.

Here is an example:

http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://bloculus.com/process-communication-les-fondamentaux/&format=json

Response is:

{
"count": 0,
"fCnt": "0",
"fCntPlusOne": "1",
"url": "http://bloculus.com/process-communication-les-fondamentaux/"
}

Whereas I had a few hundreds of shares last week.

So my questions are:

• Given that I didn't change any of my posts URL, nor website settings (no change in http or https protocol), how is it possible to "loose" sharing count ?

• Is it a way to get all my counts back ?

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/posts/2018/deprecating-the-inshare-counter

The API was end-of-lifed, so results will return what you are seeing. I don't know of an existing workaround.