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statuses/followers

Returns the authenticating user's followers, each with current status inline.  They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user, 100 at a time. (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 100 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) Use the cursor option to access earlier followers.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<users>

<user>

<id>1401881</id>

<name>Doug Williams</name>

<screen_name>dougw</screen_name>

<location>San Francisco, CA</location>

<description>Twitter API Support. Internet, greed, users, dougw and opportunities are my passions.</description>

<profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/59648642/avatar_normal.png</profile_image_url>

<url>http://www.igudo.com</url>

<protected>false</protected>

<followers_count>1031</followers_count>

<profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>

<profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>

<profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>

<profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color>

<profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color>

<friends_count>293</friends_count>

<created_at>Sun Mar 18 06:42:26 +0000 2007</created_at>

<favourites_count>0</favourites_count>

<utc_offset>-18000</utc_offset>

<time_zone>Eastern Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>

<profile_background_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/2752608/twitter_bg_grass.jpg</profile_background_image_url>

<profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>

<statuses_count>3390</statuses_count>

<notifications>false</notifications>

<following>false</following>

<verified>true</verified>

<status>

<created_at>Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009</created_at>

<id>1472669360</id>

<text>At least I can get your humor through tweets. RT @abdur: I don't mean this in a bad way, but genetically speaking your a cul-de-sac.</text>

<source><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a></source>

<truncated>false</truncated>

<in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>

<in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>

<favorited>false</favorited>

<in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>

</status>

</user>

... truncated ...

</users> 

 

Paginated Response (about return values): 

          XML example (truncated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<users_list>

<users type="array">

<user>

  <id>422</id>

  <name>Jason Shellen</name>

  <screen_name>shellen</screen_name>

  <location>iPhone: 37.889321,-122.173345</location>

  <description>CEO and founder of Thing Labs, makers of Brizzly! Former Blogger/Google dude, father of two little dudes.</description>

  <profile_image_url>http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/369449595/js_glasses_suit_normal.png</profile_image_url>

  <url>http://www.shellen.com</url>

  <protected>false</protected>

  <followers_count>8526</followers_count>

  <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>

  <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>

  <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>

  <profile_sidebar_fill_color>DCDCDC</profile_sidebar_fill_color>

  <profile_sidebar_border_color>D22900</profile_sidebar_border_color>

  <friends_count>375</friends_count>

  <created_at>Thu Jul 06 22:36:22 +0000 2006</created_at>

  <favourites_count>1179</favourites_count>

  <utc_offset>-28800</utc_offset>

  <time_zone>Pacific Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>

  <profile_background_image_url>http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/382/IMG_0158.jpg</profile_background_image_url>

  <profile_background_tile>true</profile_background_tile>

  <statuses_count>2710</statuses_count>

  <notifications></notifications>

  <verified>false</verified>

  <following></following>

  <status>

    <created_at>Thu Sep 24 19:31:58 +0000 2009</created_at>

    <id>4349531340</id>

    <text>I think @jasonfried just went from "prickly fellow" to "kind of a dick" in my book. Eyes on your own paper Fried.</text>

    <source><a href="http://www.brizzly.com" rel="nofollow">Brizzly</a></source>

    <truncated>false</truncated>

    <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>

    <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>

    <favorited>false</favorited>

    <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>

  </status>

</user>

... truncated ... 

</users>

<next_cursor>1299072354878293926</next_cursor>

<previous_cursor>0</previous_cursor>

     </users_list> 

 

Notes:

• If the cursor parameter is not provided, only the first 100 users in the set will be returned.
• The previously documented page-based pagination mechanism is still in production, but will be deprecated. Please migrate to cursor-based pagination for increased reliability and performance.

 

Usage examples: 

cURL (about cURL):

curl -u user:password http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml

 

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