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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:21:06+00:00

I am using Addthis.com’s service to add facebook ‘like’ button onto my site. Now

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I am using Addthis.com’s service to add facebook ‘like’ button onto my site.
Now I want to manually add some facebook social plugins to my site:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

As I see, some plugins require to enter ‘app_id’, but I didn’t specify my ‘app_id’ for Addthis.com’s buttons, so I would like to ask how does facebook track those ‘like’ or other activities on my site??

For example, if a user clicked ‘like’ on Addthis.com’s button on my site, would this user appear in the “Like Box” and “Facepile” plugins that I manually added to my site??

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    AddThis

    When using AddThis, the app itself, gets the current page that is liked or the specified Facebook page. When you are referring to the app_id for AddThis, it is their own id that allows you to log into http://www.addthis.com and access their custom statistics page.

    Facebook

    When using the Facebook like button or other plugins, Facebook records the number of times someone has pressed the button. It also includes shares and reposts in this number. Using the Facebook API you would be able to seperate the numbers (whether like or share) if desired.

    Facebook API

    In order to access the information recorded by Facebook you must register and app with them and that will give you a Facebook app_id. This can then be used in any of their plugins.

    Overall

    Since the AddThis app transfers the information to Facebook, Facebook will display your like and share count in any of its plugins.

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