You can get the list of all followers using the API request:
https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1
That request will return up to 5000 follower IDs in one request. You can
then look up details of those users using the /1/users/lookup method.
More information on these methods is available here:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids
and
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup
Best
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, jaojao <wuwei.yuan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written a php to fetch followers of a given username of twitter
> by using twitter API.
> But the result is limited by the number of followers.
> For example, there are only 100 followers of BBCWorld listed in
> result, instead of 367,480.
>
> What is the solution to overcome this limitation?
>
> my code:
> <?php
> $username="BBCWorld"; //input user name of twitter
> $follower_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers/";.
> $username.".xml";
>
> $twFriends = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($twFriends, CURLOPT_URL, $follower_url);
> curl_setopt($twFriends, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
> $twiFriends = curl_exec($twFriends);
> $response = new SimpleXMLElement($twiFriends);
>
> foreach($response->user as $friends){
> $thumb = $friends->profile_image_url;
> $url = $friends->screen_name;
> $name = $friends->name;
> ?>
> <a title="<?php echo $name;?>" href="http://www.twitter.com/<?php echo
> $url;?>"><img class="photo-img" src="<?php echo $thumb?>" border="0"
> alt="" width="40" /></a>
> <?php
> }
> ?>
>
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