Get all followers of specify user from Twitter by PHP

There are many ways for getting Twitter follower count but the simplest of them is by using a simple PHP method explained on this article.

<?php
/* 
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*/



$screenName = "4evertutorial"; #user name on twitter
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=false&include_rts=false&screen_name=$screenName&count=1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$curlout = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$response = json_decode($curlout, true);


if(count($response))
{

echo $response[0]['user']['id'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['name'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['screen_name'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['location'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['description'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['followers_count'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['friends_count'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['profile_background_image_url'];
echo "
";
echo $response[0]['user']['profile_image_url'];

}


?>

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