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Twitter Followers count history

We cannot directly obtain this information from Twitter as it does not allow access to historic data. However, we can fetch it from some third party services.
In this post I'll show how this information can be retrieved through Twittercounter.com's API

 

API documentation

API- http://twittercounter.com/pages/api

It requires signup for API key

Limit- The API is rate limited to 100 calls per hour.

 

Example Request and Response

Request

http://api.twittercounter.com?twitter_id={id}&apikey=[api_key] 

 

Response

{
"version": "1.1",
"username": "Klipfolio",
"url": "http://www.xyz.com",
"avatar": "http://ab.com/profile_images/{id}/twitter.jpg",
"followers_current": 123456,
"date_updated": "2016-03-29",
"follow_days": "123",
"started_followers": "123457",
"growth_since": 123457,
"average_growth": "1234",
"tomorrow": "1234567",
"next_month": "123456",
"followers_yesterday": 1234567,
"rank": "2",
"followers_2w_ago": 1234567,
"growth_since_2w": 12345,
"average_growth_2w": "12345",
"tomorrow_2w": "1234567",
"next_month_2w": "1234567",
"followersperdate": {
  "date2011-04-16": 1234567,
  "date2011-04-15": 1234568,
  "date2011-04-14": 1234569,
  "date2011-04-13": 1234571,
  "date2011-04-12": 1234572,
  "date2011-04-11": 1234573,
  "date2011-04-10": 1234574,
  "date2011-04-09": 1234575,
  "date2011-04-08": 1234576,
  "date2011-04-07": 1234577,
  "date2011-04-06": 1234578,
  "date2011-04-05": 1234579,
  "date2011-04-04": 1234581,
  "date2011-04-03": 1234572
},
"last_update": 1234567890
}

 

You can further connect it to Klipfolio through Web Accessible Resource Connector

 


 

Thanks,
Arshad

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