Get User Verified Followers - API Reference

This endpoint returns an array of verified user profiles that are following the target profile identified by user_id. The profiles are returned in reverse chronological order, with the most recent followers appearing on the first page.

GET https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/user/{user_id}/verified-followers?cursor={cursor}

Headers

Authorization string required

Authorization Bearer header containing your SocialData API key

Example: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Path Parameters

user_id integer required

The numeric ID of the desired user.

Example: 1625802236571033602

Query Parameters

cursor string optional

Cursor value obtained from next_cursor response property. Omit this value to retrieve the first page

Example: 4611686018541662731|1741085517660815316

Code Examples

curl "https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/user/44196397/verified-followers"
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer API_KEY'
    -H 'Accept: application/json'

const userId = '44196397';
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';

fetch(`https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/user/${userId}/verified-followers`, {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${API_KEY}`,
        'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(response => console.log(response))
.catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

userId = '44196397'
API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'

url = f'https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/user/{userId}/verified-followers'

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {API_KEY}',
    'Accept': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    print(data)
else:
    print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
    print(response.text)

$userId = '44196397';
$API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';

$url = "https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/user/{$userId}/verified-followers";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY",
        "Accept: application/json"
    ]
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data);

curl_close($ch);

Example Responses

{
    "next_cursor": "4611686018541662731|1741080922217775060",
    "users": [
        {
            "id": 1547124452596523008,
            "id_str": "1547124452596523008",
            "name": "Gwendal Brossard",
            "screen_name": "GwendalBrossard",
            "location": "Building",
            "url": "https:\/\/t.co\/6o4TTYu7LQ",
            "description": "I'm an indie maker building products \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbb @PaletteBrain\u2506https:\/\/t.co\/BEadk6UDlz \u2728",
            "protected": false,
            "verified": true,
            "followers_count": 3557,
            "friends_count": 149,
            "listed_count": 41,
            "favourites_count": 12425,
            "statuses_count": 6778,
            "created_at": "2022-07-13T07:43:56.000000Z",
            "profile_banner_url": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_banners\/1547124452596523008\/1672736091",
            "profile_image_url_https": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1572151372455313409\/qq1yH56d_normal.jpg",
            "can_dm": true
        },
        // ...
    ]
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "Insufficient balance"
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "User not found"
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "Failed to fetch data from Twitter"
}

Response Codes

200 OK - request succeeded
402 Payment Required - not enough credits to perform this request
404 Not Found - requested user not found
422 Unprocessable Content - validation failed (e.g. one of the required parameters was not provided)
500 Internal Error - API internal error, typically means that SocialData API failed to obtain the requested information and you should try again later