Twounter is a WordPress Plugin that fetches the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format. Twounter uses Twitter API to ensure that the plugin provides the maximum speed while fetching the number of followers.

Installation:

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the zip file and upload “twounter” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress

Usage:

• Use the <?php echo twounter(‘username’) ; ?> function in your template files to show the number of Twitter followers. (replace ‘username’ with your Twitter user name)
• use the twounter shortcode [twounter]username[/twounter] in post/page editor to return the numbers of followers for the username.

Since the output is provided in simple text format, you can use CSS to style it anyway you want, and put it anywhere you want. Think of the possibilities!

Plugin Details:

• Plugin Version: 1.0.1
• Wordpress Version: 2.7.1 (please let us know through comments if the plugin works on other versions)

Changelog 1.0.1

1. Twitter API is limited to 100 calls per hour. Twounter now caches the number of followers for 5 minutes. (Thanks to ThePokerJerk for ponting this out.)

Planned Features:

• Chicklet support.

Please don’t hesitate to suggest us more features for the plugin. We are always looking for suggestions and appreciate you for sharing your ideas with us.

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This post is written by Muhammad Haris. You can follow him on twitter @mharis.