[Plugin: Simple Twitter Connect] Followers not showing up

I have same experience

I think the problem is that in line 195, you are using
$resp = stc_do_request('https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids',$args, 'GET');
but the actual Twitter API URL should be
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers/ids.xml?username

A bit more digging reveals that the Twitter API has complicated the process of getting a box with follower photos a bit…as opposed to Facebook which essentially creates the box and provides via iframe if you so desire.

Anyway, it seems to me that 2 critical calls are required:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/followers/ids
and
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/lookup

Also, would be nice if to avoid hitting rate limits you can cache the calls (if you aren’t already doing that.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api-faq#under_limit

Since in my case even total number of followers is not showing up, I’m guessing STC is having trouble getting userids of folloers in the first place

$args=array();

	$args['acc_token'] = $options['autotweet_token'];

	$args['acc_secret'] = $options['autotweet_secret'];

	$args['screen_name']=$username;

	$args['cursor']=-1;	

	$resp = stc_do_request('https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids',$args,'GET');

	if (!$resp) return array();

+1

but the actual Twitter API URL should be
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers/ids.xml?username

No, that would be incorrect. The /statuses/ bit isn’t part of that API call. See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/followers/ids for more info.

It also does make the /lookup call to get picture info. This is mitigated by asking for info for 100 users all at once, thus reducing the calls required.

Also, if you look closely, caching is done by using the Transients API. The cache expiration is set to 24 hours.

The followers widget is buggy, but in other ways. ??

I believe that this may be broken if you have twitter set to require HTTPS calls. A future version will fix this, but I need to find time to revamp STC entirely to do it properly.

I see.

Well, since even total number of followers is not showing up, I’m guessing STC is having trouble getting userids of folloers in the first place.

You have suggested that I might “have twitter set to require HTTPS calls”. How do I change that?

Sorry, for asking a stupid question. Found and changed the “require https” setting in Twitter settings.

Unfortunately hasn’t had any impact on widget behavior.

Hope you find time to revamp STC soon, Otto! ??