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Anatoly Mironov

If you try to get comments quantity for a url, you may wonder, why there is only quantity of the comments which the current user has posted:

public int GetNumberOfNewsPageComments
        (SPSite currentSite, string pageUrl, int max)
{
    var serviceContext = 
            SPServiceContext.GetContext(currentSite);
    var socialCommentManager = 
            new SocialCommentManager(serviceContext);
    var comments = socialCommentManager
            .GetComments(new Uri(pageUrl), max);            

    if (comments != null)
    {
        return comments.Length;
    }

    return -1;
}
```The solution is to impersonate the SPSite object with an account who has the rights to manage social data. Give this permission to the account in CA - Application Management - Service Applications - User Profile Service. [![](https://sharepointkunskap.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/manage-social-data.png?w=284 "manage-social-data")](https://sharepointkunskap.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/manage-social-data.png)