I am in the process of writing some reports for the number of followers over time for Twitter, however after substantial searches and trial and error, I have not being able to get the number of followers over time - particularly past number of followers.
I know there is an API to get the individual userIds for the followers, but thats an overkill for what I need and I would have to call it everyday. Ideally it would be great if I can pass a date and it could return the number of followers.
Does anyone have any experience with this and what the API might be!
Thanks
While there is no direct API to get the trendline, getting the followers count is fairly easy, access via the URL:
http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12345
The documentation has it all @ https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/show
To get the trendline, seems like I will need to query it on a daily basis!
Updated to Twitter API v1.1
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?user_id=12345
Documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/show
Updated 31-May-2018
The new API end point is at
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-users-show