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Montgomery also seems to subtly flip off Lindell with a hidden "Trump Lost LOL" message.

mschenkon NewsBlaze CEO Appears Linked to Anonymous Anti-Vax Site Goodsciencing.com

Caught via Gravatar URL analysis.

mschenkon Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

Here is our official reply. When an article by a reputable medical journal suddenly goes viral in anti-vaccine circles on Facebook there usually is more to the story. There was.

https://leadstories.com/analysis/2021/12/lead-stories-respon...

mschenkon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

http://opensharecount.com

Restores the little counter next to Twitter's "tweet this" button that shows you how often your article has been tweeted. Also available as drop-in replacement for Twitter's old undocumented API endpoint that provided this info.

mschenkon A drop-in replacement for Twitter’s deactivated unofficial share count API

Yep, which is why we included a quote from @jack about that in our launch press release: http://tech.leadstories.com/140185-what-twitter-takes-away-o...

mschenkon A drop-in replacement for Twitter’s deactivated unofficial share count API

Thanks, I am the dev who put it together. Has been quite the ride so far, going from zero to several million requests per day has been... interesting :-)

I don't know how incomplete the search results are but for most sites this should be enough to give a relative idea of the popularity of their posts. And in any case, I only built it in this way because this was the way Twitter suggested for getting information about links in the announcement they made about shutting down the share counter.

mschenkon Tell HN: Twitter count.json endpoint has been disabled; 3rd party buttons broken

Check out http://opensharecount.com for a drop in replacement...

mschenkon From Idea (Saturday) to Build (Sunday) to TechCrunch (Tuesday). And Now?

I speak Dutch, English and reasonable French. For German and Spanish: Google translate to the rescue :-)