**Is Twitter Seriously Removing Share Counts?** Yes they are, and here’s what people are saying… You may or may not have heard the recent news about [Twitter's recent announcement](https://twittercommunity.com/t/a-new-design-for-tweet-and-follow-buttons/52791) about _redesigning their Tweet and Follow buttons_. In that relase they also dropped the bombshell that they would be *killing off the Tweet counts* as well as the API that many developers use to display them in social sharing plugins or analytics. Why they thought the [follower count](http://dustn.tv/meaningful-metrics/) still needed to stay is beyond me. At [Warfare Plugins](http://warfareplugins.com), we wanted to stay on top of this story and get as many points of view as we could. So we got commentary from some of the people whose opinions we respect and have a grasp on greater social media trends. *Read the full post:* [Is Twitter Seriously Removing Share Counts?](http://warfareplugins.com/is-twitter-seriously-removing-share-counts-why-would-they-do-this/) We got responses from: - Guy Kawasaki - Peg Fitzpatrick - Brian Fanzo - Jay Baer - Ian Cleary - Mark Traphagen - Lori Friedrich - Marcus Sheridan - Kim Garst And many more social media heavyweights. The opinions are quite varied. **What are your thoughts about all this?** _Will Twitter actually follow through with this? Is it a good or bad thing?_