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I am trying to get some statistics for a facebook page using publicly available information - particularly how many people have ever been tagged at that place.

I used FQL to retrieve the # of checkins for a specific page_id - which works fine. Query: SELECT checkins FROM page WHERE page_id=PAGEID.

However I noticed that the # of checkins is a different number than the number that is listed on the facebook page ie. "4,600 Were Here".

So I have two questions.

  1. If somebody checks into a place and tags 4 other friends there with them, does that only increment the field "checkins" by 1 or by 5?
  2. Is it possible to get the number of individual people that "were here" (ie. the number that is listed on the facebook page)?
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  • I am facing the same problem. Anyone who is experienced please answer this question. Thanks for your time.. – monish Feb 14 '12 at 06:27

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I think this issue is discussed here:

Wrong number of Facebook checkins via Facebook Graph API

I am having the same problem. Basically, the API returns number of users who checked in, but the "were here" count returns number of users who checked in + no. of users they tagged with them. The "were here" count is not accessible via the API.

...I think...

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