Question about Twitter

[businessminder]

This question is a technical question and I'm hoping there are web developers here who can answer my question.

Is there a quick way to display the number of people being followed, the number of followers, and the number of updates for specific Twitter accounts in plain HTML?

I am a PHP/MySQL developer so I would appreciate a solution in PHP.

I'm assuming this will involve some use of Twitter API.

[businessminder]

While I spend time digging out the necessary information on APIWiki@Twitter, I was hoping someone could give me a clear answer before I find a solution myself =) I've never worked with Twitter API before. But anyways, with the help from APIWiki knowledge base, I wrote my own Twitter PHP Parser that will only return the information I need.

Cheers.

[MrGamma]

Why don't you just scrape the page and preg_match out the data you want with regular expressions?

What kind of application is it? What I mentioned should be able to get you by for most applications.

[chrisranjana]

Congrats on writing an application using twitter API's.

The twitter API wiki has loads of examples.

http://www.evansims.com/2007/08/web-...art-i-twitter/

https://developer.omniture.com/node/2183

Show some more examples.

[cd_replication]

do you guys even find twitter helpful? It seems to me that half of the tweets are from software bots as are most of those that follow you out of the blue