WordPress Display your number of Twitter Followers

You can add your Twitter followers too! Make sure you insert your own username.

 
<?php 
$twit = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show/USERNAME.xml'); 
 
$begin = '<followers_count>'; $end = '</followers_count>'; 
$page = $twit;
$parts = explode($begin,$page); 
$page = $parts[1]; 
$parts = explode($end,$page); 
$tcount = $parts[0]; 
 
if($tcount == '') { $tcount = '0'; } 
echo '<b> '.$tcount.' </b> Followers'; 
?>