Top 5 followers of an account ranked by Twitter Score

Deprecated. This route is kept for existing clients; new integrations should use the replacement named in the description.

GET https://twitterscore.io/api/v1/get_twitter_top_followers

Returns the five highest-scoring accounts that follow the given profile. Only followers that TwitterScore actively monitors are considered: the follower must be an active, non-suspended monitored account and the follow relationship must still be active. Results are sorted by the follower's Twitter Score descending and hard-capped at 5 entries; there is no paging. Deprecated in the public docs in favour of the paginated follower list (get_followers / top_followers_paginate), which returns the same accounts with richer fields.

Required: one of username, twitter_id. Nested fields

top_followers[].twitter_id (integer): Follower's numeric X id. This endpoint returns it as a JSON number (PositiveBigIntegerField), unlike the paginated endpoints which return it as a string; values above 2^53 lose precision in JavaScript.
top_followers[].username (string): Follower's handle without @.
top_followers[].name (string): Follower's display name.
top_followers[].twitter_score (number): Follower's Twitter Score on the 0–1000 scale (FloatField, so it may carry decimals).
top_followers[].followers_count (integer): Follower's own current follower count.
top_followers[].profile_image (string): Absolute URL of the follower's stored profile picture (S3 storage), or null when none is stored.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`username`	string	no		X/Twitter handle of the account whose followers to list, without the leading @. Surrounding whitespace and a trailing slash are tolerated. Renamed handles are resolved through the previous-username history when the current handle is unknown.
`twitter_id`	integer	no		Numeric X/Twitter user id of the account. Tried first when both are sent; if no account matches the id, the lookup falls back to username. Can exceed 2^53 for newer accounts, so treat it as a 64-bit integer.

At least one of username, twitter_id is required.

Example request

curl -s "https://twitterscore.io/api/v1/get_twitter_top_followers?username=VitalikButerin" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TWITTERSCORE_API_KEY" \
  -H "User-Agent: my-app/1.0 ([email protected])"

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://twitterscore.io/api/v1/get_twitter_top_followers",
    params={"username": "VitalikButerin"},
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["TWITTERSCORE_API_KEY"],
             "User-Agent": "my-app/1.0 ([email protected])"},
    timeout=15,
)
data = r.json()
if not data.get("success", True):      # errors arrive as success=false (see /developers/errors/)
    raise RuntimeError(data["message"])
print(data)

const r = await fetch("https://twitterscore.io/api/v1/get_twitter_top_followers?username=VitalikButerin", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.TWITTERSCORE_API_KEY,
             "User-Agent": "my-app/1.0 ([email protected])" },
});
const data = await r.json();
if (data.success === false) throw new Error(data.message);
console.log(data);

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "top_followers": [
    {
      "twitter_id": 44196397,
      "username": "elonmusk",
      "name": "Elon Musk",
      "twitter_score": 998.6,
      "followers_count": 221574312,
      "profile_image": "https://twitterscore.s3.amazonaws.com/media/profiles/elonmusk.jpg"
    },
    {
      "twitter_id": 902926941413453824,
      "username": "cz_binance",
      "name": "CZ BNB",
      "twitter_score": 981.2,
      "followers_count": 10215733,
      "profile_image": "https://twitterscore.s3.amazonaws.com/media/profiles/cz_binance.jpg"
    },
    {
      "twitter_id": 14379660,
      "username": "brian_armstrong",
      "name": "Brian Armstrong",
      "twitter_score": 964.9,
      "followers_count": 1489021,
      "profile_image": null
    }
  ]
}

Errors

Error codes this endpoint can return (see Errors for the body format): api_key_missing, api_key_invalid, api_access_deactivated, api_key_revoked, invalid_params, account_not_found, method_not_allowed, rate_limited, quota_exceeded, server_error.

Authentication: X-API-Key header (or Authorization: Bearer), see Authentication. Limits: per-minute rate and monthly quota by plan, see Rate limits. Machine-readable definition: /openapi.json.

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