How to display retweet count and likes in the meta above the excerpt

Here is a short and simple plugin I wrote to add a re-tweet and Facebook like button to each post. This version of the Facebook like button uses the newer XFBML instead of the iframes but requires you to register an app id.

To use the buttons just add the function call to your loop.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: C3M Social Share Buttons
Plugin URI: http://c3mdigital.com/
Description: Adds Facebook and Twitter Share Buttons using template tags
Version: 1.0
Author: Chris Olbekson
Author URI: http://c3mdigital.com
*/

// Social Share Buttons by Chris Olbekson.  This Plugin is Licensed under The GPL v2 and my be freely distributed.  This plugin will not work without entering a valid Facebook app id registered to the domain it is being used on.

//This adds the Facebook and Twitter js to your foooter hooking into wp_footer
function c3m_share_this_scripts() {

        echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>';
        echo '<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>';
        echo  '<div id="fb-root"></div>';
        echo    '               <script>';
        echo        "               window.fbAsyncInit = function() {;
                        FB.init({appId: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', status: true, cookie: true,
                                xfbml: true});
                                };";
        echo        "                 (function() {
                                    var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;
                                    e.src = document.location.protocol +
                                      '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
                                    document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
                                  }());
                                </script>";   


                    }

    add_action('wp_footer', 'c3m_share_this_scripts' );


    function c3m_social_share() {

                echo '<div class="social-share" style="margin-bottom:50px;width:500px;">
                    <ul class="share-buttons">
<li style="float:left;margin-right:25px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="'; echo the_permalink(); echo '" data-text="'; echo the_title(); echo '" data-count="horizontal" data-via="your_twitter_username">Tweet</a></li>
                    <li style="float:left;width:300px"><fb:like href="'; echo the_permalink(); echo'" layout="standard" action="like" font="lucida grande"></fb:like></li>';


                echo '</ul>
                     </div><div class="clear"> </div>'; 

                    }


?>