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Today I will show you how to make a Twitter counter similar as RSS counter post, you can display it anywhere you want in your WordPress blog. You can style it and make it more beautiful.

Create a new text file and save it in php format and name it twitter and then paste the following code in the file and save it. So it will be twitter.php

<?php
//Your Twitter XML Link
$turl="http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=YOUR TWITTER USERNAME";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $turl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$tw = $xml->followers_count;
//end get cool feedburner count

echo $tw;

?>

After pasting these lines to your file we have to add Twitter user name, so replace the YOUR TWITTER USERNAME with your Twitter user name on the following line

$turl="http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=YOUR TWITTER USERNAME";

Then sim­ply add this line of code wher­ever you want the counter to dis­play:

<?php include("twitter.php"); ?>

Save your twitter.php file to your theme files where you have hosted the blog.