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Twounter: A Twitter Follower Counter Plugin For WordPress

In our bid to offer great freebies along with our excellent Premium WordPress Themes, we introduce to you Twounter, a Twitter follower counter plugin for WordPress.

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.

Posted by Haris on 14th March, 2009

25 Comments to “Twounter: A Twitter Follower Counter Plugin For WordPress”

  1. The Poker Jerk

    27th Apr, 09

    Cool idea. But without making use of a cache, we are going to run out of out 100 API calls in short order. You should make a version that checks every 5 minutes or so, and writes the latest info to the database.

    This might give you some ideas:

    http://blog.ajaxmasters.com/year/2009/month/1/title/Twitter-followers-counter-tutorial/post.htm

  2. Haris

    27th Apr, 09

    Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will upgrade the plugin and and repackage the upload asap.

  3. The Poker Jerk

    28th Apr, 09

    I tried installing it in its current form, but nothing is showing up. I just put

    into my footer, but nothing happens…

    :(

  4. Haris

    28th Apr, 09

    Can you please pastebin.com your footer code ?

  5. Haris

    28th Apr, 09

    Did you forgot to echo the function? < ?php echo twounter('ThePokerJerk') ; ?>

  6. The Poker Jerk

    28th Apr, 09

    I put what was in the readme.

  7. The Poker Jerk

    28th Apr, 09

    OK using that code works! You should put that in the readme instead ;)

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    1st May, 09

    superb plugin…working f9..thnks for the plugin..

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  17. Michael

    20th May, 09

    Nice Plugin!

    Can you add a thousands designator (comma)???

    1890
    1,890

  18. Michael

    20th May, 09

    I’m curious…

    I’ve installed the plugin and it’s not updating.

    Suggestions????

  19. Nicholas Z. Cardot

    21st Jun, 09

    You had the time delay set to 18,000 seconds which is five hours. Or are they partial seconds? I changed mine to 300 which is five minutes and it works nicely now.

  20. Al

    8th Jul, 09

    I’d be interested to know about the comma question that Michael, too, enquired about. Thanks for a great simple plugin.

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  22. Tomas

    17th Oct, 09

    Great plugin, it works properly, thanks.

  23. Diana

    8th Nov, 09

    Very nice! I´m trying to format using image as a background. Thank you!

  24. Jan

    29th Dec, 09

    Dear Muhammad,

    Not sure if the contact form on your website functioned well, so I’ll repost my question here.

    I came across your Twounter plugin, and I found it a very handy little plugin.
    I decided to port it to a Textpattern plugin, because I work a lot with that CMS.

    Would you agree if I put this ported version (with credits to you of course) up for other Textpattern users at Textpattern.org?

    Please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll keep it for myself!

    Cheers,

    Jan

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