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Display number of Twitter followers in your Wordpress based website

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Put this code in your theme, where you want to show followers count. Don't forget to change USERNAME.xml to your twitter user name.

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<?php
$twit = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show/USERNAME.xml');
 
$begin = '<followers_count>'; $end = '</followers_count>';
$page = $twit;
$parts = explode($begin,$page);
$page = $parts[1];
$parts = explode($end,$page);
$tcount = $parts[0];
 
if($tcount == '') { $tcount = '0'; }
echo '<b> '.$tcount.' </b> Followers';
?>