Shares Are Different on Facebook Fanpage

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We got a few requests telling us that shares on people's facebook fanpage are different from shares on their website:

An example could be something like this:

As you can see there are 64 shares on the facebook post.

Now we look at the referring website article on  https://www.mashshare.net/downloads/mashshare-likeaftershare/:

You can see a huge difference of shares 64 on facebook and 183 Shares on our website.

The reason is that shares on a facebook page and shares on a website are entirely different ones!

MashShare is counting shares which are done by your visitors via the share buttons your website
Any share numbers on a facebook post which is released on a facebook page is not counted.

You can check and verify the share count which should be shown beside the MashShare Share Buttons with a service like sharedcount.com but keep in mind that these numbers can slightly differ because sharedcount.com is not counting all the networks MashShare is supporting. Any difference in numbers can also result from different caching time points.