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How do you get the followers number of followers in Twitter using twitteroauth?

Hi,

I am using abraham's twitteroauth library to integrate my application with Twitter. I have successfully managed to complete authentication and post tweets. Now I am trying to pull out some user statistics like number of followers, following, tweets, retweets, etc.

But I cannot see any direct method to pull out our followers number of followers. Say if person A follows me, then I am interested in knowing the number of followers person A has.

Does any one has any idea on how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

h4hardy

Hi ishani,

you can try with the below code,

<?php
$tw = get_option("twitterfollowerscount");
if ($tw['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() – 3600 ) )
{
$xml=file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=wpbeginner');
if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)</',$xml,$match)!=0) {
$tw['count'] = $match[1];
}
$tw['lastcheck'] = mktime();
update_option("twitterfollowerscount",$tw);
}
echo $tw['count'];
?>

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h4hardy

Hi,

you can also try with this..

See this: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=

It returns a json object which you can use to get the followers count.

Here, the count is stored in ‘followers_count’

Bernard Savonet

(just en passant)
If your program does not work under IE9, check with FF. There was once a problem with IE9 where twitter API returned a json object that IE did not andle correctly. This problem has been solved... but maybe not for the complete API
See https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27277495/Twitter-profile-widget-appears-blank-in-IE9.html

ishani_v

ASKER

@h4hardy

Thanks for your reply. But your code doesn't seem to be working. I would like to make myself clear again that I already have the code to get count of followers for a particular user. What I want is that I want to see the no of followers for the people who I am following.

Can that be done? I have attached my code that displays to me my number of followers. I want a count that shows the no of followers for any of the people I'm following.

Thanks.

$credentials = $oauth->get("account/verify_credentials");
$content = $oauth->get('statuses/user_timeline');

foreach ($content as $item) 
{     // ---- start foreach ---- 

 	
	//No of Followers
	$followers = $item->user->followers_count;
}

echo "<br>Followers: <strong>". $followers ."</strong> \r\n";

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