How to get a count of followers from Twitter API and trendline

Question

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 g

Answer 1

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