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How to Display Twitter Followers Count as Text in WordPress
The easiest way to display Twitter followers is by using the official Twitter follow button . But what if you don’t want to slow your site down by loading twitter’s script? Or what if you are making something very custom and need to display twitter follower count as text instead of a button. Well then you will like this tutorial. In this article, we will show you how to display your twitter follower count as text on your WordPress site. Wondering how we are going to do this? Well, first we will create a Twitter App, so we can properly use the Twitter API v1.1 to pull the followers count. We will cache it to optimize performance, and then we will display it on the site. Ready to get started? Let’s go. First thing you need to do is to create a Twitter App for the site where you want to display the followers count. Go to Twitter Developers website and sign in with your Twitter account. After signing in create a new application. On the next screen provide a name for your app … [Read more...] about How to Display Twitter Followers Count as Text in WordPress
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