shares or g+ button count ?

just found that one and looks like your getGoogleShareCount method returns g+ counter instead of shares. not sure about that , please confirm.

bradsknutson.com/blog/get-google-sh ...

<?php
$shares_url = 'https://plus.google.com/ripple/details?url='. $url;
$response = file_get_contents( $shares_url );
$shares_match = preg_match('@([0-9]+) public shares@',$response,$matches);
$shares = $matches[1];
echo $shares;
?>