If you’re on Twitter, you probably display the number of your followers on your blog, using the chicklet from TwitterCounter.com. Today, I’m going to show you how to display your followers in full text mode.

The first thing to do is to paste the following php functions on the functions.php file from your WordPress blog theme:

 function string_getInsertedString($long_string,$short_string,$is_html=false){   if($short_string>=strlen($long_string))return false;   $insertion_length=strlen($long_string)-strlen($short_string);   for($i=0;$i<strlen($short_string);++$i){     if($long_string[$i]!=$short_string[$i])break;   }   $inserted_string=substr($long_string,$i,$insertion_length);   if($is_html && $inserted_string[$insertion_length-1]=='<'){     $inserted_string='<'.substr($inserted_string,0,$insertion_length-1);   }   return $inserted_string; }  function DOMElement_getOuterHTML($document,$element){   $html=$document->saveHTML();   $element->parentNode->removeChild($element);   $html2=$document->saveHTML();   return string_getInsertedString($html,$html2,true); }  function getFollowers($username){   $x = file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/".$username);   $doc = new DomDocument;   @$doc->loadHTML($x);   $ele = $doc->getElementById('follower_count');   $innerHTML=preg_replace('/^<[^>]*>(.*)<[^>]*>$/',"\1",DOMElement_getOuterHTML($doc,$ele));   return $innerHTML; } 

Then, simply paste the following anywhere on your theme files. Just replace my username with yours.

<?php echo getFollowers("catswhocode")." followers"; ?>