Display Following and Followers on the sidebar

You might want to take a look at the widget code that comes with BP Follow as it does very similar functionality:
https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/blob/1.2.x/_inc/bp-follow-widgets.php#L36

Modify that to your needs.

Also, check out the wiki for more info:
https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/wiki

Thanks r-a-y!

In case anyone else needs this, here’s the code

Display Following:
<?php if ( ! $following = bp_get_following_ids( array( 'user_id' => bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ) {
return false;
}
if ( bp_has_members( array(
'include' => $following,
'max' => 30,
'populate_extras' => false,
) ) ) : ?>
<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>
[a href="<?php bp_member_permalink() ?>" title="<?php bp_member_name();?>"]
<?php bp_member_avatar( $avatar_args ) ?>
[/a]
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php _e( 'You are not following anyone yet', 'buddypress' ) ?>
<?php endif; ?>


Display Followers:
<?php if ( ! $follower = bp_get_follower_ids( array( 'user_id' => bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ) {
return false;
}
if ( bp_has_members( array(
'include' => $follower,
'max' => 30,
'populate_extras' => false,
) ) ) : ?>
<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>
[a href="<?php bp_member_permalink() ?>" title="<?php bp_member_name();?>"]
<?php bp_member_avatar( $avatar_args ) ?>
[/a]
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php _e( 'You dont have any followers yet', 'buddypress' ) ?>
<?php endif; ?>


Almost exactly what I was looking for.

If someone wants to list the followers of the displayed user rather than the logged in user, simply replace bp_loggedin_user_id() with bp_displayed_user_id().

So this:

if ( ! $follower = bp_get_follower_ids( array( ‘user_id’ => bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ) {
return false;
}

would be

if ( ! $follower = bp_get_follower_ids( array( ‘user_id’ => bp_displayed_user_id() ) ) ) {
return false;
}