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Counting Twitter followers

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

TwitterCounter, the service that tells you how many people followed a given Twitter user on a given date (among other things) has an API – so I thought I’d take a look at it to see whether I could create a quick automated table of rankings.

Here’s the simplest way to query the API:

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http://twittercounter.com/api/?username=mediaczar&output=xml

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Just cut and paste that into the address bar of your browser for example. Fairly simple. Change the username and you’ll get the data for a different user. Here’s what you get back from the API — an XML file with lots of rich meaty data:
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