This snippet fetches number of Facebook Likes and Tweets for a post (wordpress). It can be done via 1000s of plugins available, but via this snippet we get full control over presentation.

fetch_tweet_and_likes.php

<?php

function getShares($atts) {
  extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    'url' => '',
'p_id' => '',
    'bordercolor' => '#dddddd',
    'textcolor' => '#333333',
    'border ' => '1',
    'bordertype' => 'solid',
    'bgcolor' => '#f7f7f7',
  ), $atts));
 
  $json_string = file_get_contents('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' . $url);
  $json = json_decode($json_string, true);
  $twitter = intval( $json['count'] );

  $json_string = file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=' . $url);
  $json = json_decode($json_string, true);
  $facebook = intval( $json[$url]['shares'] );
  
  $comments_count = wp_count_comments($p_id);

  if ($twitter != "0") $text .= "<strong>Twitter</strong>: ".$twitter." times ";
  if ($facebook != "0") $text .= "<strong>Facebook</strong>: ".$facebook." times ";
  if ($comments_count->approved != "0")	$text .= "<strong>".$comments_count->approved."</strong> Comments ";
  if ($comments_count->approved == "0")	$text .= "<strong> Comments </strong>";
  
  $result = "<br><p style=\"padding: 4px 4px 4px 4px; color: $textcolor; border: $bordercolor $border $bordertype; background: $bgcolor\">Shared on the following social networks - ".$text."</p><br>";

  set_transient($sharestransient, $result, 60*60*4);
  update_option($sharestransient, $result);
  return $result;
 
}
add_shortcode('postshare', 'getShares');

add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'do_this_p', 7);
function do_this_p(){
	global $post;

	$url = get_permalink($post->ID);
	$p_id = $post->ID;
	echo do_shortcode('[postshare url="'.$url.'" p_id="'.$p_id.'"]');
}