Yeah, I am torn about caring or not caring. On the one hand, it is a decent way to show readers how popular a post is and maybe feel more encouraged to share.

Yeah, I am torn about caring or not caring. On the one hand, it is a decent way to show readers how popular a post is and maybe feel more encouraged to share. On the other, now that I don't receive that count portion of the service, keeping the button installed means Twitter gets to still track my users. People do use the buttons though to share. Before I added a LinkedIn button I received a number of emails from people asking for one so they could more easily share links. I may just remove it though because when Facebook and LinkedIn have a good amount of shares or likes, it looks strange to have a button with no shares.