Question

Here is the thing. I’d like to set up a counter that shows total number of Twitter followers for a user. When the number of followers reach exactly 1,000,000, would love to do something. If there’s an api to do that, how often can I call the api.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello
Sorry I don’t know PHP that well, and not at all JQuery, however, here is what I’ve done in C# … hope it helps 😉

// Launch the request to obtain the number of followers of the user
WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=[username]");

using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

// Load response in an XML Document
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(streamReader.ReadToEnd());

// Parse the node we're interested in...
XmlNode node = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("followers_count");

// ... and affect the number of followers
labelScore.Text = node.InnerText;
}