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Created November 8, 2010 15:51
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Example getting follower count and last status using SimpleXML and the Twitter API. Any information returned from the show API (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show) can be accessed.
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<?php
function getUser($name){
$user = simplexml_load_file('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$name);
return $user;
}
$user = getUser('tjlytle');
echo $user->followers_count;
​echo $user->status->text;​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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tjlytle commented Nov 8, 2010

Any information returned from the Show API can be accessed.

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