google analytics tracking social urls - google-analytics

hello guys I am new at google analytics and I want to integrate a functionality. In my website I am giving credit to user on each post share on social site like fb or twitter etc ,now I want to track those shared url if 3 peoples click on that shared url on social site with different ip then I want to give 3 credits to the person who has shared that post , any I think it can be done by google analytics so any one have suggestion how to achieve this type of functionality
thank you.

Google Analytics is not the right tool for this because it is not easy to get data out to know how many credits you should give.
You should use a specific url tracker for this, which would update your credits counter in real time.

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