Twitter follower count number

Question

Is the only way to get the follower count number in plain text is using cURL? or does the twitter API provides any such option?

Answer 1

In API version 1.1 you can use: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/show

the 'followers_count' field should contain the follower count number.

In API version 1 which is deprecated you can use: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/show