Question

This is what I have in my template.php file:

function twitter_count() {
    $pageID = 'TWITTERACCOUNT';
    $info = json_decode( file_get_contents('https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=' . $pageID .'') );
    echo $info->followers_count;
}

And I have this to display the result within a block:

<?php echo number_format(twitter_count("TWITTERACCOUNT") ); ?>

This is the result:

36170

Answer 1

Try

<?php echo number_format(intval(twitter_count("TWITTERACCOUNT") ) ); ?>

Or

 <?php echo number_format(floatval(twitter_count("TWITTERACCOUNT") ) ); ?>

And also remove that echo from your function. Instead, do a return.