Twitter follower count number

https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=tvdw (my profile, just replace the screen name)

Also available as XML: https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml?screen_name=tvdw

Obtaining it in PHP:

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=tvdw'), true);echo $data[0]['followers_count'];

In API version 1.1 you can use: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/show

the 'followers_count' field should contain the follower count number.

In API version 1 which is deprecated you can use: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/show

Twitter API 1.0 is deprecated and is no longer active. With the REST 1.1 API, you need oAuth authentication to retrieve data from Twitter.

Use this instead:

<?php    require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php'); //get it from https://github.com/J7mbo/twitter-api-php    /** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/    $settings = array(        'oauth_access_token' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN",        'oauth_access_token_secret' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",        'consumer_key' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",        'consumer_secret' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"    );    $ta_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';    $getfield = '?screen_name=REPLACE_ME';    $requestMethod = 'GET';    $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);    $follow_count=$twitter->setGetfield($getfield)    ->buildOauth($ta_url, $requestMethod)    ->performRequest();    $data = json_decode($follow_count, true);    $followers_count=$data[0]['user']['followers_count'];    echo $followers_count;?>