When somebody clicks on the ShareThis button, a count call has been initiated and the count on the buttons increases at the same moment, it is the basic functionality of the ShareThis buttons. Here, the user has an intent of sharing the data and hence he has clicked the button, but if he cancels the sharing, the counter never goes back as the count call which is initiated earlier has already being tracked by the Analytics Dashboard.
If you wish to implement the counts maintained by the native services, you can implement following code on your website (this will enable native counts for Facebook, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn) – “nativeCount:true”
Below is an example code:
<script type="text/javascript">
stLight.options({ publisher:'YOUR_PUB_KEY', onhover: false, nativeCount:true });
</script>
