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Revision: 17327
at September 1, 2009 08:02 by neal_grosskopf
Initial Code 
function curl($url)
{
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"www.YOURDOMAIN.com");
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10);
	$data = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $data;
}

function GetTwitterFollowerCount($username)
{
	$twitter_followers = curl("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/".$username.".xml?count=1");
	$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($twitter_followers, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
	return = $xml->status->user->followers_count;
}

echo GetTwitterFollowerCount("YourTwitterName");
Initial URL 
http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php?pid=57
Initial Description 
Display the number of people following you on Twitter using this custom Twitter badge. The code simply returns a number so you can style it however you like.
Initial Title 
Custom Twitter Badge Using PHP
Initial Tags 
php, twitter
Initial Language 
PHP