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php: get twiiter followers amount
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function get_followers($twitter_id){
$xml=file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$twitter_id);
if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)</',$xml,$match)!=0) {
$tw['count'] = $match[1];
}
return $tw['count'];
}
$nb = get_followers('phpsnippets');
echo "PHP Snippets already have ".$nb." followers!";
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